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Features
Like all Lite-On DVD burners, the new 1635s is
capable of reading and writing to CD-R media at 48x.
16x writing to both DVD+R and DVD-R discs is
also supported. I will test these capabilities with quality Verbatim
media.
High speed 8x writing is supported with DVD+R
rewritable media.
The current maximum write speed to DVD-R
rewritable media is also supported. These discs continue to be hard to
find. Fortunately, I'm able to test high speed writing to RW discs
with Verbatim samples that were kindly provided.
Fast 8x writing to DVD+R double layer discs is
possible. While these discs remain impossible to find, I was provided
with one sample from Verbatim for testing.
 While
some of the new next generation double layer writers can write at 6x to this
format, the SHW-1635s supports only 4x writing to DVD-R DL media. This
is really not a big issue as genuine 6x media in this format still does not
exist.
Installation
As with any optical drive in a Windows XP
system, no issues were encountered during installation and the drive was
correctly identified in Device Manager.
All supported features were identified using
Nero's InfoTool. My sample shipped with firmware YSOB. However,
Lite-On just released a new firmware YSOG and all testing was redone using
the very latest release.
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