Our
friends over at CDRLabs.com have wrapped up their review of the Plextor PX-716A
DVD recorder. As the model number of the drive suggests, the PX-716A supports up
to 16x recording speeds for both DVD-R and DVD+R media. DVD-RW media can be
burned at speeds up to 4x while DVD+RW media can be burned at speeds up to 8x.
Last but certainly not least, DVD+R DL media can be burned at speeds up to
6x. Here's part of CDRLabs' conclusion:
 The PX-716A got off to a rough start when it was released this
fall. Days after it hit stores, our forums were full of people complaining
about writing quality issues. While this didn't look good for the self
proclaimed "king of quality," Plextor was quick to respond with a new
drive revision and a flood of firmware updates. These firmware updates not
only addressed the writing quality issues, they improved the PX-716A,
adding faster writing speeds and support for new formats like DVD-R
DL.
The PX-716A is the
first drive from Plextor with the ability to write to both DVD-R and DVD+R
media at 16x. At this speed, the drive was able to write 4GB of data in as
little as 5 and a half minutes. While we've seen a few 16x DVD writers
that can do it in less time, they are few and far between. The PX-716A
also performed very well with other types of recordable media. It held its
own relatively well with DVD-RW media and turned in one of the fastest
DVD+RW writing times we've seen. Even more impressive was the PX-716A's
DVD+R DL writing performance. Thanks to its 6x writing speed, the drive
took less than 19 minutes to burn an entire 8.5GB DVD! Unfortunately, due
to the lack of media, we weren't able to test the PX-716A's DVD-R DL
writing speeds. |
Overall CDRLabs.com was quite pleased with
the Plextor PX-716A's performance and they gave the drive a 9 out of 10 score.
You can check out the complete review here. For a second opinion you can of course check out our own review of the
PX-716A here.
Source: CDRLabs.com
