DVD burners

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:37 pm

Is there any other DVD burners that are equal or better than a Plextor PX-708A ?

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Sat Sep 13, 2003 11:04 pm

the price isn't bad (at least @ newegg), and usually I say "nothing beats a Plextor." Though these are rebadged NEC drives- which isn't a bad thing, 'cos NEC makes good drives.

Red Dawn · Post by **Red Dawn** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 11:01 am

Are you saying that Plextor is selling rebadged NEC as their own? You have links to corraborate that?

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 12:27 pm

can't seem to find it... so you may safely ignore me.

TheDude · Post by **TheDude** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:16 pm

As much as I am one for saying "PLEXTOR ROCKS", and after all those reviews I wrote back in the day about Plextor drives and all the times I told people to buy Plextor drives...

DONT BUY THIS PLEXTOR DVD DRIVE!

I had one at work and it was inferior to the Sony DRU510A.

Why?

The Plextor drive only has a 2MB buffer...meager even for today's CD-R drives. The Sony on the other hand uses an 8MB buffer. For CD's, the 2MB buffer is plenty, for DVD's, I would prefer to have the larger buffer...especialy with the sensitivity of the compressed video data on DVD movies.

Just my $.02

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:53 pm

I'd have to say that the Sony DW-U10A is a great cheap drive that is multi format. 8MB buffer and such. It's the OEM version of the DRU500A. Comes in silver, beige, and black. I woulda gone the DRU510A route but I wanted a black drive for my black case. The new DW-U14A is the OEM of the DRU510A drive. What is cool is you can flash the DW-U10A to be a DRU500A and get 4x write speeds and such. I did it to mine and it is completely awesome. Just gotta get some 4x DVD-R media.

*EDIT*

Crap....Newegg has the DW-U14A in black for the same price I payed for my DW-U10A like 2 weeks ago....pisses me off...oh well that's technology for ya.

TheDude · Post by **TheDude** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 2:03 pm

Newegg wont pricematch for you? Here in LA there is a place called DigiComp International that will pricematch anything for up to 2 weeks and can generally get anything you want in 24-48 hours. I usually research online and then just call them. I dont mind paying sales tax if im not paying for shipping.

smb · Post by **smb** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 3:12 pm

Plextor might use the same lenses and pcb's, but I thought what really set plextor apart from everyone else was the fact that the gears were amde out of steel.

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:06 pm

Here is the one I've been thinking about getting.

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:09 pm

In my experience with Sony drives, they suck. I promised myself to never buy another Sony drive of any kind.