Sony's new DVD burner

Mumbai: Sony launched a DVD burner, AD-7240S. The AD-7240S Auto Strategy Technology, which was first seen in the predecessor series AD-7200, ensures good burning quality. When you burn a DVD, the drive always reads a section of the media in advance so that the writing head can be optimally adjusted. Adaptive Self Tuning also delivers outstanding performance because the drive automatically adapts to the disc and the hardware environment in every burning process to compensate quality fluctuation.

AD-7240S comes with a serial ATA interface. It burns DVDs in +/-R format at up to 24x speed and CDs at up to 48x speed. In DVD-RAM and DVD+R9 format, and on double layer DVD-R media, the AD-7240S writes at up to 12x speed. DVD+RW discs are written at up to 8x speed and DVD-RWs at up to 6x speed. The AD-7240S achieves up to 16x reading speed with DVDs and 48x reading speed with CDs.

It is compatible with DVD+/-R, DVD+/-R DL, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM (Ver.2), CD-Audio, CD-ROM (mode1 and mode2), CD-ROM XA(mode 2, form 1 and form 2), Photo CD (single and multiple sessions), CD Extra, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-TEXT discs. It can also playback CD-I (FMV) and VIDEO CD with special hardware. This drive unit can also play DVD-Video with special function, such as MPEG decoder.

AD-7240S by Sony is available through Rashi Peripherals and its 53 branches throughout India at an estimated retail price of Rs 1,500 and comes with a one-year warranty.