The boom in netbooks and ultraportable notebooks has seen the market expand in external optical disc drives (ODDs). According to a report on digitimes.com, Taiwanese optical drive giant Lite-On IT has seen its external market sales exceed internal (also known as “half-height”) drives for the first time during August 2010. Earlier this year, Lite-On became [...]
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Taiwanese optical drive specialist Lite-On has released its second-generation 12X-speed Blu-ray drive. Called the iHBS212, the new drive will burn single-layer BD-R (write once) discs at 12X-speed, and double-layer BD-R media at 8X-speed. DVD write speeds include 16X-speed for DVD+R/DVD-R, double-layer DVD media at 8X and rewritable DVDs at 8X (+R) and 6X (-R) respectively. [...]