DVD+R Dual Layer DVD / Lite-On SOHW-832S
by Philippe Ramelet
Published on June 24, 2004
The Liteon SOHW-832S
The SOHW-832S is our first Dual layer burner tested. The first part of the name is a code related to the Sony Alliance Model ODD norm: SonyOptical Half Height optical loader DVD+/-RW. It has to be said that Liteon is now manufacturing the Sony burners, and the DRU700 is identical to the 832S apart from the personalised box.
The SOHW-832S is able to read CDs at 40X maximum speed and burn CD-R and CD-RW respectively at 40X and 24X. With the DVD+R and –R the speed is 8X and 4X for re-writing media + and – RW. The burning speed for DVD+R DL is currently limited to 2.4X. The access time to read a CD and a DVD is 160 ms. The Smart Burn technology is in charge of avoiding all errors due to the cache memory dumping. It also work with the CD burning and with the DVD+R and +RW where the lossless linking is 100% operational. However, the SOHW-832S is quite expensive.
Nero Info Tool indicates that the Le SOHW-832S has a RPC II zone protection with 4 possible changes. But Liteon provide a utility which transform the SOHW-832S in a RPC1 player without any zone restrictions.
The SOHW-832S is able to read CDs at 40X maximum speed and burn CD-R and CD-RW respectively at 40X and 24X. With the DVD+R and –R the speed is 8X and 4X for re-writing media + and – RW. The burning speed for DVD+R DL is currently limited to 2.4X. The access time to read a CD and a DVD is 160 ms. The Smart Burn technology is in charge of avoiding all errors due to the cache memory dumping. It also work with the CD burning and with the DVD+R and +RW where the lossless linking is 100% operational. However, the SOHW-832S is quite expensive.
