Verbatim has begun testing new media for 8x DVD reading/writing. This will allow 4.7GB DVD media to be read/write in 7 minutes! They have sent out the media to DVD burner manufacturers as well as software suppliers to be used in drive design and read/write compatibility testing. Verbatim expects to ship out the new media to retailers in Q1 2005. Keep a look out for these new drives/media, I’m sure allot of people have been waiting for this type of news to upgrade their drives.

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