Faster burns promised by Samsung's new TruDirect external optical drives

By Jacqueline Emigh | Published June 18, 2008, 5:22 PM

A slimmer version of Samsung's series of optical disc drives, due next July, will connect directly to digital cameras and will enable faster burns of multimedia content than internal PC drives, the manufacturer told BetaNews today.

NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) -- In an interview with BetaNews during an invitees-only press event here today, Richard Aguilera, Samsung's national sales manager for optical storage, told us that the company's next round of external TruDirect drives (model SE-T084M) will let consumers burn videos, photos, and music in a fraction of the time it would take for them to burn content onto a PC's hard drive.

Consumers will be able to burn 4.1 gigabytes from a one-hour stream of full quality DVD video -- for instance, directly from a camcorder -- in just 30 minutes, Aguilera promised, as opposed to the 1:05 minutes a typical PC drive requires. On a PC, he said, there's pre-mastering, multiplexing, and buffering that takes place in burning applications, that don't have to take place with a TruDirect connection. All the consumer needs to do is attach the cable both ways, press Play on the camera, and Record on the TruDirect drive.

In a laudable design move, the new TruDirect will use slot loading as opposed to a rollout tray, for easier manipulation by consumers when they're on the go. Pricing for the device is expected to start at $149 MSRP.

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"...burn 4.1 gigabytes from a one-hour stream of full quality DVD video -- for instance, directly from a camcorder -- in just 30 minutes..." "...attach the cable both ways, press Play on the camera, and Record on the TruDirect drive."

Hmmmm, I wonder just how many camcorders support this? That support recognizing they need to play at faster than normal speeds when the only input provided is hitting the play button?

Is it me, or did I just miss the paragraph about this new drive making use of exisiting drive-to-source communication?

Or was it mentioned that this was a new proprietary technology for Samsung camcorders, and to be licensed out to other competitors?

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It seems that there is a mistake when the article says:

for instance, directly from a camcorder -- in just 30 minutes


It should says 30 seconds (at lesat I hope so).

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