Lite-On IT Obtains Additional Orders for 360 ODDs Options

[Xbox-Scene]

Lite-On IT Obtains Additional Orders for 360 ODDs Posted by XanTium | October 5 15:21 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From digitimes.com: [QUOTE] Lite-On IT, the largest Taiwan-based maker of optical disc drives (ODDs), has received additional OEM orders for internal DVD-ROM drives for use in Xbox 360 consoles from Microsoft and consequently has given top priority to Microsoft's orders in allocating its total production capacity, according to sources from the ODD components industry in Taiwan. To meet Microsoft's urgent demand, Lite-On IT has allocated production capacity solely for turning out one million Xbox 360 DVD-ROM drives a month, the sources pointed out. But the capacity is still not enough, and thus Lite-On IT has dedicated additional capacity, the sources indicated. Lite-On IT is the third OEM maker of Xbox 360 DVD-ROM drives having started shipments in June-July with an initial monthly volume of 300,000-500,000 drives, the sources said. Shipments in September were already likely close to one million drives, not including the additional orders, the sources indicated. Microsoft has also placed additional orders with Wistron, a Taiwan-based assembly maker of Xbox 360 consoles, the sources indicated. [/QUOTE] Note: Lite-On bought the BenQ-Philips ODD division a while ago, so they are probably talking about what we know as the 'Xbox360 BenQ drive'. Looks like we'll be seeing more and more of these drives soon. Full Story: digitimes.com

[Navillos]

oooooh i cant wait lite-on makes good drives, especially good for scanning. they should have great results with backup media. SWEET!

edit: forgot they were benq drives. haha

This post has been edited by Navillos: Oct 5 2007, 08:02 PM

[bucko]

Lite-On are awesome, I had 2 Lite-On drives in my old comp they were still working when I sold it, Lite-On Sata 20x DVD burner in my new PC and my 360 has the Lite-On Benq drive, so I'm

This post has been edited by bucko: Oct 5 2007, 08:00 PM

[metalcoat]

Maybe it's just me but does that seem like a lot of drives for only 10+ million xbox 360s sold over 2 years? Does this mean something else (price drop) to bring more demand, holidays? Or simply a Halo 3 precaution?

I don't know, anyone with any insight?

[davinator456]

perhaps they will be swapping drives in the refurb units they ship out...

[audi_a8]

so now its about time we'll see a ixtreme firmware for the Benq (liteon) dvd player

[Mitch111788]

perhaps they will be swapping drives in the refurb units they ship out...

well i just got a referb from MS the other day (sent it a RRoD box that i opened and they still gave me a referb) and it has the samsung drive in it (ms25! w00t!). maybe later they will replace them but i dont think they will unless it needs to be replaced

[digitalman42]

That is insane. Was the drive flashed that you sent in?

well i just got a referb from MS the other day (sent it a RRoD box that i opened and they still gave me a referb) and it has the samsung drive in it (ms25! w00t!). maybe later they will replace them but i dont think they will unless it needs to be replaced

[Mitch111788]

That is insane. Was the drive flashed that you sent in?

well it broke on june 4th (i know the date because it was the very day i graduated high school ) and i just went and bought a new one because it was out of warranty and i didnt want to miss the halo 3 beta. anyways one day i decided i wanted to mod it so i cracked it open to try and fix it. failed attempt so i didnt bother flashing it. the next morning i log onto X-S only to find out that MS extends the warranty to boxs with RRoD! made me kind of mad but a few weeks ago i thought "what do i have to loose?" and called MS for a box and i got a replacement! and with the ms25 drive to boot!

This post has been edited by Mitch111788: Oct 6 2007, 06:51 AM

[SR388]

anyone else notice that this article read like a 4th grader wrote it?

[bucko]

anyone else notice that this article read like a 4th grader wrote it?

you should read some of the analysts articles, seems patcher and that annoying lot are about 2 years old.

[DuBob4432]

Lite-On are awesome, I had 2 Lite-On drives in my old comp they were still working when I sold it, Lite-On Sata 20x DVD burner in my new PC and my 360 has the Lite-On Benq drive, so I'm

i was thinking the same thing...