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Nu Tech DDW-081: More DVD+R madness [Review, AnandTech]
Perhaps most of us are not that familiar with Nu Technology (aka Nu Tech New), but virtually everyone has heard of their parent company, Quanta Storage Inc. QSI is one of the larger and older optical OEM producers for several US based system builders. Unfortunately for QSI, selling to retail stores and OEM clients began to infringe on their system components, and thus, Nu Technology was born. Nu Technology went into business officially in May 2003 as the retail branch of QSI, and already they have an extensive product line. Thu, 23 Oct, 2003 | 140 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Plextor PX-708A DVD Writer [Review, HardwareZoom]
When it comes to CD writing and re-writing technologies, most computer nerds will not object that Plextor the Japanese manufacturer has been making some of the best drives around, especially when the term "best" is defined more towards the recording quality side. (OK you can call that generalization, but like it or not, Plextor fans are everywhere.) Wed, 15 Oct, 2003 | 73 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Plextor PX-708A DVD±RW/DVD±R Drive Review [Review, Digit-Life]
Although fall is a pretty dull season, the optical drives market looks brisk. You can see not only clones of NEC's and Pioneer's drives, but also unique solutions from companies which earlier made a good showing. Some time ago we tested Toshiba's drive and today we have a long awaited multiformat DVD recorder from Plextor. The new drive is not an original solution, but it's a current leader in the sphere of DVD recorders. This is the first drive able to burn DVD+R media at 8X. Wed, 15 Oct, 2003 | 89 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Five Multiformat DVD Recorders [Review, ExtremeTech]
At first blush, DVD recorders are very cool. You can use them to back up files (up to 4.7GB), archive home movies or create DVD movies of your very own to give to family and friends. Of course, they also have more controversial uses, such as backing up your DVD movie collection. Wed, 08 Oct, 2003 | 224 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
LG Super Multi DVD Writer [Review, HardwareZoom]
Not too long ago, writing different DVD formats means using different DVD writers. The format war between the Minus (DVD-R/RW), Plus (DVD+R/RW) and DVD-RAM campus brought nothing but confusions to the consumers, not to mention the drastic slow-down of recordable DVD product developments as a result of distributed research resources. Then the complications were kind of eased by dual format DVD writers, merging both plus and minus media compatibilities. These drives have overwhelmed the market since then, their sales have grown exponentially, brining in several folds of revenues to optical storage and OEM makers. Wed, 08 Oct, 2003 | 152 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Plextor PlexWriter Premium CD Burner [Review, ComputerCritics]
The 52|32|52 Plextor Plexwriter Premium looks deceivingly similar to many of the CD burners out there. It sports the standard bone color chassis, with a standard eject button, headphone jack, and volume control on the front panel. What makes the PlexWriter really stand apart is the ability to control just about every aspect of the burning process. The CD-R included with the drive installs all sorts of goodies including Roxio Easy CD Creator and something called PlexTools Professional. Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 | 61 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Plextor PlexWriter PX-708A [Review, DesignTechnica]
While other manufacturers were quickly producing their own dual format DVD writers, Plextor took their time bringing the PX-708A to market, all in the name of better performance. The PX-708A is capable of writing DVD+R media at a blazing fast 8X and +RW media at 4X speeds making it the fastest consumer based DVD writer currently on the market. The PX-708A is also capable of writing CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW formats. Add to the mix a robust software package, a one year warranty and a reliable burn and good things truly come to those that wait. Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 | 139 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Toshiba SD-R5112 DVD-R/RW Drive Review [Review, Digit-Life]
Toshiba's optical drives do not raise much noise when enter the market. On the one hand, they don't have extraordinary characteristics, on the other hand, users value Toshiba's drives for their reliability and quality. Last time the company brought out its own DVD-R/RW drive, while other companies simply placed orders with the only OEM drive maker at that moment - Pioneer. The device was pretty successful and the price was low. Recently this company has released a new DVD recorder. The new model isn't multiformat and supports recording of only DVD-RW standards, but its speeds keep in line with the up-to-date level, and the price is almost equal to the previous model. Now let's have a look at the new model to decide how good it is. Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 | 138 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
TEAC DW-548D Combo Drive [Review, EnvyNews]
It is their golden anniversary. Most of us know TEAC for their audio recording equipment. Throughout their fifty years of history, this company has flourished due to their development of media recorders of all kinds. Even NASA uses TEAC equipment in their aircraft. And although reviewing a flight data recorder would be an extraordinary challenge and entertaining read, we will be sticking to home recording equipment this time around. Thu, 25 Sep, 2003 | 110 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
MSI CR52-M (52/32/52) CD-RW [Review, ExplosiveLabs]
Today we take a look at MSI's latest member to their CD-R/W line, the MSI CR52-M. The CR52-M is a 52x write, 32x re-write, 52x read CD writer. With all the DVD-R/W hype these days it is great to see companies such as MSI keeping the CD-R/W market alive and kicking. In fact, recently their is companies once again upping the ante and starting to bring out 54x writers, however again it will be hard to find media that is capable of writing at those speeds if it is even available. With all that being said, lets get on to the review. Sun, 21 Sep, 2003 | 51 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Samsung SW-252B CDRW [Review, Bytesector]
Samsung has been the manufacturer of many computing devices that have been great hits in the consumer market. Today we will be examining one of their latest CDRW drives. This drive boasts some of the fastest speeds in the market and is bundled with a huge 8MB buffer! Packaged with the traditional Samsung CDRW faceplate, Just Link and Stable Burn technologies to ensure BURN (Buffer Under RuN) proof. The drive naturally totes the 52x write, 24x rewrite, 52x read speeds. Samsung has gone the extra mile by including an additional 6MB on the base 2MB buffer for a total of 8MB. Enough of all this talk about how nice the drive looks lets take a look at the specifications and the benchmarks. Sun, 21 Sep, 2003 | 114 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Plextor PX-504UF - External DVD+R/W and CD-R/W [Review, Bjorn3d]
External drives such as this one seem to be most interesting to people who have run out of IDE connectors or bays in their PCs, who do not like opening up their PCs to do upgrades, or who like the portability and flexibility of an external drive. The PX-504UF features both USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interfaces, so this drive can be used with a wide variety PCs and Macs, even ones with older USB 1.1 ports. Wed, 17 Sep, 2003 | 43 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Plextor PX-708A dual DVD±RW recorder CDR-info]
Constant increases in the capacity of the offered models, combined with higher transfer rates and enhanced reliability, are probably those factors that mainly characterize the progress of technology in the storage area. Taking into account this, we might easily conclude that the technology underlying magnetic storage media (such as hard disks) has overcome the corresponding progress in the optical storage area. However, optimistic announcements for fast optical storage solutions based on high frequency laser technologies (i.e., Blue laser, Blu-Ray) promise spectacular storage capabilities, although pricing will be probably prohibitive for the average-user, at least at the early stages of their introduction. Wed, 17 Sep, 2003 | 32 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Plextor 708A: First exclusive look at 8X DVD+R [Review, AnandTech]
Back in July, Philips (DVD+R forum) officially announced the DVD+R format specification, part of which was to increase the recording speed standard to 8X. DVD+R 8X is a little different from other recording speed standards, as the drive starts burning at 6X CLV, then jumps to 8X CLV for the outer surface. So even though, technically, the drive does not obtain a sustained 8X burn, we see burn times around 8 or 9 minutes for full 4.38GB of data. What really sweetens the pie is that 4X capable DVD+R media should burn fine at 8X. Sat, 13 Sep, 2003 | 197 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Sony DRU 510A Review [Review, ExplosiveLabs]
With the launch of DVD rewritable drives people have often wondered which format they would use before they decide on what drive to buy. For some, the reason of having this 'Multi-Standard' approach has scared them off from adapting the use of DVD media from the bad memories of the VHS/BETA days. A close friend always reminds me that VHS only got the standard over BETA (which was far more superior) because all the 'Adult Video' (and other) tapes were done and mass distributed in VHS. But to ease the pain and the confusion manufacturers such as Sony has come out with a non-biased Multi-Standard drives that allow you to record on both standards. Sony was one of the first on the block with a Multi-Format drive (DRU500 Drive) and with the release of the 510A model Sony has pushed the drive to the limits. This second generation release is speedier than its predecessor, not only being able to burn DVD-R and DVD+R at 4x but also DVD+RW/DVD-RW at 4x which is a first for the industry at the time this product was released. Sat, 13 Sep, 2003 | 165 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
CR52-M: CDRW ramps up to 32X [Review, AnandTech]
CDRWs are still finding their niche in many developing countries, but in the US, they are starting to show their age. MSI’s newest CR52-M produces solid performance, but is it too little, too late? Tue, 09 Sep, 2003 | 20 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Pioneer DVR-A06 DVD Writer: The War +/- Won't Happen [Review, TomsHardware]
Since we performed the comparative test entitled DVD Burner Test: Seven Times The Capacity at the beginning of the year, DVD capacity has generally increased by seven times and the DVD writer market has continued to grow at a fast pace. Many manufacturers now offer DVD writers in their catalogs. Write speeds have increased, of course, and by fall, all DVD devices should be able to record at 4x speeds. Sun, 07 Sep, 2003 | 98 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
24x CD-RW Slim Combo Roundup Vol1 [Review, Cdr-info]
We take a look at the Asus SCB-2408 and LiteOn LSB-24081MX combo drives, supporting 24X CD-R and 12X CD-RW writing, 24X CD-ROM and 8X DVD-ROM reading. Fri, 05 Sep, 2003 | 19 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
More External CD-RW Drives Are Coming: ASUS CRW-5224A-U [Review, Xbitlabs]
Today we are going to take a close look at an external optical CD-RW drive from ASUS, which supports USB 2.0 interface, and offers a bunch of excellent features at a very attractive price. Tue, 02 Sep, 2003 | 62 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
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