Maxell Corporation of America, the technology and marketing leader in premium recordable media products, today announced the introduction of the highest speed recordable DVD discs on the market to support the next generation of high-performance DVD drives.

Maxell's new 4.7 GB high-speed DVD discs include 4x DVD-R discs for general use and 2x DVD-RW media, and are designed to support new high-performance 4x/2x drives from Pioneer, Sony and others. The 4x DVD-R media supports data transfer rates of 44.32 MB/sec, while the 2x DVD-RW media operates at 22.16 MB/sec.

To support the new higher-performance requirements, Maxell enhanced the organic dye recording layer materials of the 4x DVD-R discs to ensure quality recording at 4x write speeds. Maxell DVD-R discs are write-compatible with DVD-R/RW drives, and read-compatible with all recordable DVD drives and current generation DVD-ROM, DVD Video and DVD Audio players. The new 2x DVD-RW discs are based on Maxell's high-quality phase change recording materials and can be re-written up to 1000 times.