I read this over on Technudge earlier today. HP has not made their own drives for several years, even though they were one of the pioneers of the original CDR technology. LiteOn is well known for their inexpensive, and sometimes high quality drives. In this highly competitive market segment, it makes a whole lot of sense to have LiteOn making your optical drives.
HP JUST DID SOMETHING interesting, it signed up Lite-On to produce DVD burners with the HP name. The first product, the slides-off-the-tongue HPDVD840i is a LightScribe DVD +/-/RAM based DL drive with all the bells and whistles.
The interesting bit is not the drive itself, but the fact that HP looks to be pawning off their business in this area. What was once a thriving market has now become a commodity, and HP under Hurd is trying to clean up things like that. This may be a very good move for HP, and a very good brand for Lite-On. We don't see a down side here.
HP has made some drives that were simply duds through the years, in my opinion, this should improve things.
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