Sony Europe’s IT Peripherals division has announced its first DVD-RAM compatible DVD writer, marking the company’s entry into the market for ‘super multi format’ drives and paving the way for a branded kit in March 2006.

In addition to DVD-RAM media, the Sony DW-G120A supports all DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW media including the latest double and dual layer DVD Recordable discs.

Sony was the first manufacturer to introduce Dual-RW DVD burners supporting both the ‘plus’ and ‘minus’ formats back in 2002, and it is in response to customer demand that Sony is extending the support beyond DVD±R/RW to DVD-RAM, the company claims.

The DW-G120A drive promises state-of-the art performance with all supported media types, including 5x DVD-RAM, 16x DVD±R single layer writing and 8x (DVD+R DL), and 4x (DVD-R DL) double/dual layer disc recording.

Rewritable DVDs are recorded at 8x (DVD+RW) or 6x (DVD-RW) speed and the drive offers 48x CD speed. The DW-G120A is equipped with a fast Ultra DMA Mode 2 ATAPI interface.

The DW-G120A includes an ‘intelligent’ vibration reduction system with an ‘Auto Balancer Spindle’ (ABS) to maintain high read/write performance. To reduce vibration and noise and increase safety with poor quality media, the drive defaults to 40x CD speed while the unique ‘Turbo Boost Control’ feature allows you to select 48x speed by the push of a button.

The DW-G120A drive has a self-cooling design not requiring a mechanical fan and it is one of the shortest drives on the market too which further improves the airflow within the PC, says Sony.

The OEM version of the Sony DW-G120A drive is available now. Based on the same core drive a branded ‘brown box’ kit (Sony DW-G120ABR), with Sony logos both on the box and the drive’s front bezel as well as user manuals, a warranty card and the basic Nero Software Suite ,consisting of five powerful yet easy-to-use DVD creation tools, will be available from March 2006.

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