Pioneer kondigt de vierde generatie DVD/CD recordable aan zo lezen we bij CDR-Info. De opvolger van de DVR-A03 ondersteunt behalve de DVD-Recordable ook de DVD-Re-recordable. Nieuw is ook de buffer-underrun protectie en de ondersteuning voor high speed CD-RW schijfjes. Het product zal eind deze maand te verkrijgen zijn. De prijs van het stukje hardware zal ongeveer 499 dollar gaan bedragen:
In addition to supporting DVD-R, the DVR-A04 also writes and reads DVD-RW, a re-recordable format that can also be played on many DVD video players and DVD-ROM drives for use with content that changes frequently, testing of titles before committing to DVD-R, and data storage applications such as system backups. Both DVD-R and DVD-RW are approved members of the DVD Forum family of formats. The drive also supports reading and writing of CD-R and CD-RW media, and can be used as a DVD-ROM and CD-ROM drive as well.