AOpen Dishes Out New DVD+RW

AOpen announced a leading edge product DVD+RW, which not only writes CD-R/RW medium, but also writes the high-density DVD+RW media (4.7Gbyte). DVD+RW drive offers a DVD rewritable solution, and is also well-suited to the operating needs of the latest multimedia PCs and CE appliances using digitized audio, graphical and video information. It offers 2.5x DVD+RW writing, 12x CD-R writing, 10x CD-RW rewriting, 8x DVD and 32x CD reading. This product is displayed the first time with Computex, Taipei, that it is held in AOpen Inc. booth.  See the full article here.

i saw an advertisement for a dvd writer... US$4500 ... ouch!
and only 1 x burn speed.