New SuperDrive includes DVD authoring app
updated 01:40 pm EDT, Thu April 11, 2002
Formac announced today the introduction of its devideon superdrive, a new FireWire DVD-R/RW & CD-RW combination drive that includes Formac's proprietary DVD authoring software. The software's enhanced MPEG encoder, supports NTSC and PAL video formats, converts iMovies and QuickTime files into DVD format and can tune the quality of video and audio output, by defining video bit rates between 1.0 and 9.8 MBit and audio frequencies between 32KHz and 48KHz. It offers the ability to record more than 6 hours of video on a single DVD media. The $550 drive is due later this month and uses a Pioneer-based mechansim with 2x/1x/6x DVD-RW write/rewrite/read speeds and 8x/4x/24x CD-RW speeds.



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