Lite-On to start making HD DVD burners in 2007
By Richard Lawler 
posted Aug 21st 2006 1:55PM
posted Aug 21st 2006 1:55PM
While we're still waiting for Toshiba -- or anyone else -- to start selling HD DVD burners Stateside, one of the largest Taiwanese manufacturers, Lite-On, has announced they will begin producing HD DVD burners in March 2007. They're not picking a side however, as they've already begun making Blu-ray recordable drives. Digitimes notes Toshiba has been very active in courting Taiwanese manufacturers to the HD DVD side, we'll see if this bears worthwhile fruit. Luckily for HD DVD, considering the current price of most Blu-ray burners, for most consumers they may as well not be on the shelves either.
Sounds good to me. The HD DVD-R media is already becoming available and the HD DVD players are selling well. Taiwan might as well get into the mix now.
I have, if they ever ship it back(going on 4 months) a liteon DVD recorder. This company is complete crap. I would not count this as a plus on the HDDVD camp. Unless you like cheap broken components in your system, and hopeless customer service.
In contrast to #2, I've had a Lite-On DVD-RW drive for a long time now. It's never given me a problem and has never burned a coaster.