GIGABYTE Peripherals News Service.

GIGABYTE FF TECHNOLOGY optical disc drives and burners are available with new bezels and exterior coverings! (2005/10/12)

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:00:00 GMT

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, unveiled its first 16X DVD Dual COMBO burner to support Double Layer (DL) recording in the industry this year. After that, GIGABYTE is not only pursuing a higher level of technique specifications but also improving the exterior covering. It provides new exterior coverings for all series of optical disc drives that are available soon in the market with new packages.

Since the bezels of the optical disc drives in the market now give the users with too much information including the name of manufacturer and the product specifications etc. Therefore, a bezel is overloaded with information, and the beauty of the bezel is always sacrificed. It does not need to mention that the bezel does not fit the PC chassis and causes that the appearance of the PC chassis lacks unity and collocation. Thus, GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY, as a pioneer in the industry, creates the new bezels with concepts as the following: 1. In order to avoid overloading of the information on the bezel, the only remaining contents on the bezel are the highest product specifications and optical discs read/ write speed. 2. The company name is displayed in an indented mold. Therefore, the color of the bezel is simple. It can collocate with PC chassis without covering PC’s appearances. Also, it can avoid that multiple company names appear simultaneously. 3. Using mold method to duplicate the PATTERN images. The bezel carries with characteristic. It is not monotonous and not too fussy. Through GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY R&D expert team, the optical disc drive can balance between the innovation of specification and the beauty of bezel. This new bezel focuses mainly on the modification of the exterior covering and the recording technology developed by GIGABYTE remains: I.B.S (Intelligent Burn SuperLink Technology) Through Intelligent Burn SuperLink Technology developed by GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY R&D team, the errors caused by running of disc burning process and other applications simultaneously can be avoided. Along with the emerging of various and colorful PC chassis available in the market, GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY offers a free stylish black bezel to match users’ casing in order to meet their needs. Users can change the bezel of burners as they wish (intelligent Burn SuperLink Technology). i-Burn intelligent Burn Technology The improved i-Burn technology will auto detect the optimal recording speed based on the qualities of the discs users place in. Also, it will automatically adjust an optimum burning speed based on the qualities of different areas of disks during the recording process to ensure that users can burn the best quality of DVD discs quickly and safely. i-Speed intelligent Speed Technology In order to avoid taking over CPU resources and to extend product's lifespan, the burners of GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY automatically adjust the reading speed according to different types and quality of optical discs. The low speed operation, for example, is performed for playing the music CDs in order to minimize the undesired sound. The high speed operation is performed for accessing the data on the optical discs in order to enhance the operation performance. VRS (Vibration Reduction System) and Ultra Quiet design Most optical disc drives make undesired sound while they are performing the high speed operation. Though the advanced and exact design of the VRS (Vibration Reduction System), the drives can read silently and also provide better stability while they are performing the high speed operation thus maintaining the correctness in reading data. This advanced and exact design shows how GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY R&D team persists in product developing and researching. Along with the emerging of various and colorful PC chassis available in the market, GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY offers a free white bezel of the same material to match users’ casing in order to meet their needs. Users can change the bezel of burners as they wish.

Gigabyte's First Internal 16X DVD Dual Drive - W1608A -Supporting Double Layer (DL) Technology (2004/08/18)

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:00:00 GMT

Taipei, Taiwan; August 17, 2004 –Gigabyte Technology, a worldwide leader of high-level optical devices, today announces its latest model of DVD Dual Drives – the Gigabyte GO-W1608A. It supports 16X DVD+R write, 8X DVD-R write and 2.4X DVD+R write double layer technology. With the dual compatibility feature, the GO-W1608A creates DVD discs which can be played or read by most DVD-ROM drives and DVD players. It offers the most for providing flexibility and high speed in multimedia data storage. With the rapid growth of digital multimedia entertainment, the demand for larger storage capacity for video and audio content, the GO-W1608A becomes a useful device providing faster 16X DVD+R writing speed and full support of the most popular DVD write formats. The GO-W1608A's advanced technology and high compatibility, coupled with Gigabyte experience makes it the perfect solution for beginners and power-users. Adopting a dual DVD±R/RW design, the GO-W1608A supports 16X DVD+R Write / 8X DVD-R write / 4X DVD±ReWrite / 16X DVD-ROM-Read / 48X CD-Write / 24X CD Re-Write / 48X CD-ROM-Read. In addition, with Gigabyte I.B.S technology, it prevents buffer under-run problems eliminating the creation of CD and DVD coasters. Furthermore, i-Speed Technology can intelligently adjust reading speed and i-Burn Technology will automatically adjust optimum burning speed according to media type therein providing safety and quality throughout your burning process. GO-W1608A is a powerful solution for fast data accessing and keeps stable and reliable data. It's able to satisfy any ultimedia enthusiasts'needs from reproducing memory-intensive video sequences on DVD with optimal digital image quality or playing full-length films. The functionally versatile GO-W1608A delivers smooth and efficient performance. If you're looking to make a copy of memorable moments in your life to share with your family and friends anywhere anytime, Gigabyte DVD-Dual drive is the key to high-speed, effective DVD burning. Supports 2.4X Double layer DVD+R Capabilities for the wide array of media formats are always very important. End-users want to burn without being concerned by the type of discs. In general, DVD-R、DVD-RW、DVD-ROM、DVD+R、DVD+RW、CD-R、CD-RW、CD-ROM are the common discs which GO-W1608A can support. Additionally, it can support the latest generation 8.5GB double layer DVD+R9 technology; it is the future trend for large capacity media. Intelligent Burning SuperLink (I.B.S) Technology This technology prevents errors from occurring when data flow to the drive is interrupted during the recording process due to slow source-drive performance, PC configuration problems, or when running other applications. i-Burn (Intelligent Burn) Technology The ability of GO-W1608A is to read different types of compact discs varies based on the qualities of the discs and the type of data written to the discs. Gigabyte's i-burn technology is utilized to take full advantage of the latest, high-performance VD±R/RW media to optimize recording speed and reliability. i-Speed (Intelligent Speed) Technology The GO-W1608A is capable of auto-detecting the disks' format and auto-adjusting the optimal speed for a variety of disks. The GO-W1608A can intelligently adjust reading speeds depending on the media, resulting in benefits such as saving power, saving CPU resources, increasing a product's lifespan, and maximizing work efficiency. VRS & Ultra Quiet The advanced design of the VRS (Vibration Reduction System) has been engineered to reduce vibration, perform nearly silently and also provide better stability when the drive is operating at high speed. For additional information about Gigabyte optical storage devices, please visit the company homepage at http://www.gigabyte.com.tw GO-W1608A Features:

16X DVD+R Write / 8X DVD-R write / 4X DVD± Re-Write / 2.4X DVD+R (DL) / 16X DVD-ROM / 48X CD-Write / 24X CD Re-Write / 48X CD-ROM
Vertical and Horizontal Mounting Available
Supports DAO, TAO, SAO, Variable Packet Write, Fixed Packet Write
Supports Windows^® XP/NT/ME/2000/98SE
Multiple formats: CD-DA, CD-TEXT, CD ROM Mode-1,CD-ROM/XA Mode-2 Form-1and Form-2,CD-I Ready, Video-CD, Karaoke-CD, Photo-CD, Enhance CD, CD extra,UDF(fixed/variable Packet mode),DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, DVD-R single/multi border(s), DVD+R single/multi session(s)DVD+R/DVD+R9 single/multi session(s)DVD-RWDVD+RW
Bundled software: Nero Express 6 and Power DVD 5.0 About

Nice to announce our amazing DVD multimedia optical drive GO-M1600A has been reviewed by CDRinfo.pl in Poland (2003/12/30)

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:00:00 GMT

Gigabyte^™ GO-M1600A Multimedia DVD-ROM was given the '' Recommended Product '' in the Nov. issue of PC Stats.com website, Canada (2003/11/05)

Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:00:00 GMT

Gigabyte^™ GO-M1600A Multimedia DVD-ROM was given the '' Innovation Award 2003 '' in the Nov. issue of OC Workbench website, Singapore (2003/11/03)

Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:00:00 GMT