Major appearance of a real star: the Ricoh MP5240A-DP, currently the fastest burner on the market for the compatible DVD+RW/+R standard, is available immediately. The Ricoh highlight at this year’s CeBIT attracted the interest of users right away because this device perfectly implemented DVD high-speed for the first time. The Ricoh MP5240A-DP writes not only DVD+RW but also DVD+R media of the new generation with 4x speed which corresponds to 36x speed with CD-R/RW. Data volume of 4 GB can be stored in just under 12 minutes.

Excellent compatibility
The Ricoh MP5240A-DP also offers the user the outstanding compatibility of the DVD+RW/+R standard. DVD-ROMs and self-recorded DVD videos can be quickly and simply recorded using the software supplied with the device. These can be played on almost all existing DVD videos and DVD-ROM drives. In doing this, the DVD+R offers an even higher level of compatibility.

Even when inserting data on a DVD+RW, the excellent compatibility to DVD-ROM is retained. Due to the unique DVD+VR video format, video clips can be added easily to DVD-RW or these can be processed or deleted while again retaining compatibility. Since recording and file conversion take place at the same time during writing to DVD+RW, the time required to write a DVD is substantially reduced.
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