Dual Format Drive From MediaTek

wei2008 · 04-26-07, 04:36 PM

From Stor-age.com

It was release last week at Beijing's IDF2007, no price point, check it out:

Original Link (in Chinese): http://www.stor-age.com/dongtai/xinp...042410UKZN.asp

Edited: These are for chipset, MT1929/MT1928.

JE3146 · 04-26-07, 04:40 PM

This is looking more and more like DVD -/+R everyday...

Awesome find.

hmurchison · 04-26-07, 06:11 PM

Very cool. I agree with JE3146

It's looking like manufacturers will just start looking for Univeral mechanisms. Makes the most sense really if we're talking about playback only needs. Recorders will be a another story ..they'll probably take until 2008 before we get word of potential choices.

user4avsforum · 04-26-07, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wei2008

From Stor-age.com
It was release last week at Beijing's IDF2007, no price point, check it out:

Released or announced? I assume announced, either way great news.

wei2008 · 04-26-07, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by user4avsforum

Released or announced? I assume announced, either way great news.

It is announced.

Paul Bigelow · 04-30-07, 12:59 AM

MediaTek makes a decent chip as well, so good news there.

jsl_80 · 04-30-07, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wei2008

It was release last week at Beijing's IDF2007, no price point, check it out:
http://www.stor-age.com/dongtai/xinp...042410UKZN.asp

It's not a drive, just a chipset (Mediatek doesn't make complete drives). Lite-On and TSST are the biggest ODD makers using Mediatek chipsets. Lite-On has however no plans to release a BD/HD DVD combo drive until next year (and is btw currently using Philips chipset in its BD writer). I guess it's possible that the drive in Samsung's coming dual format player will use it though.

wei2008 · 04-30-07, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jsl_80

It's not a drive, just a chipset (Mediatek doesn't make complete drives). Lite-On and TSST are the biggest ODD makers using Mediatek chipsets. Lite-On has however no plans to release a BD/HD DVD combo drive until next year (and is btw currently using Philips chipset in its BD writer). I guess it's possible that the drive in Samsung's coming dual format player will use it though.

Thanks, corrected.

rdjam · 05-10-07, 09:06 AM

I'm confused.

It looks very much like they are talking about a drive, but the stories all say it is a chipset, true.

They've listed 6x read speeds for both HD and BR. That is very fast for both formats.

Looks like the drives shown are reference designs, so it shouldn't be at all difficult to put in production fast.

I want that puppy!

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JE3146 AVS Special Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Oregon Posts: 1,517	This is looking more and more like DVD -/+R everyday... Awesome find. __________________ 159 Blu-rays and counting...

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rdjam Big Fan of Goodly HD AVS GOLD CLUB MEMBER Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 8,562	I'm confused. It looks very much like they are talking about a drive, but the stories all say it is a chipset, true. They've listed 6x read speeds for both HD and BR. That is very fast for both formats. Looks like the drives shown are reference designs, so it shouldn't be at all difficult to put in production fast. I want that puppy! __________________ JL Fathom f113 = Love!

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hmurchison HD Cat Herder Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle Posts: 3,964	Very cool. I agree with JE3146 It's looking like manufacturers will just start looking for Univeral mechanisms. Makes the most sense really if we're talking about playback only needs. Recorders will be a another story ..they'll probably take until 2008 before we get word of potential choices.

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Paul Bigelow AVS Special Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 7,323	MediaTek makes a decent chip as well, so good news there.