Currently shipping their latest 8x DVD burner, LG Electronics have announced their new DVD burner which is expected for CeBIT 2004, the GSA-4120B. As with their previous drives, this new drive will also support DVD-RAM.

The "GSA-4120B" will be able to write all common DVD formats like DVD+R(W), DVD-R(W) and DVD-RAM and of course CD- R(W) as well.

12x will only be achieved with DVD+R media whereas DVD-R will be limited to 8x while DVD+/-RW will only be written with 4x. DVD-RAM will still be written with 3x (because of forced verify only 1.5x)

There is no information yet about the ability to write DVD9, availability or pricing.

With 12x drives available, drives that only support 4x will probably dissapear in the near future. Hopefully discs written at such high speeds do not have a too high error rate.