NEC Electronics Corporation and its subsidiary in Europe, NEC Electronics (Europe), today introduced a chipset for rewritable DVD drives that supports 16x recording speed in DVD-R and DVD+R formats.

Philips Electronics has launched the world's first 16-speed DVD writer, which can burn a disc in less than six minutes, the Dutch group said on Tuesday. U.S. computer maker Dell will be the first ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands — Philips Electronics is spinning what it calls an “all-speed” DVD+R disk capable of recording data up to 16x speeds. Scheduled for retail launch at the end of August in the U.S ...

Cheers DM - penfold agrees<BR>The same story happened with CDs - the 'experts' suggested that 24 speed would be as fast as practical with 32 speed appearing with SCSI interfaces. It wasn't long before ...