Plextor DVD±R/RW Burner Now Supports High Speed 12X DVD Recording

[NFS4]

http://www.plextor.com/english/news/press/712A_pr.htm

 

[RaymondY]

Really nice, just got a PX-708A for X-mas. Oh well.

 

[bluemax]

I wonder how media-fussy this one'll be? :frown:

 

[JackBurton]

Man, this fvcking sucks! I was trying to hold off until DVD9 burners become available, but this drive is freakin' sweet! 12X DVD+R, 8X DVD-R and 48X CD-R! AWESOME DRIVE!

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
Man, this fvcking sucks! I was trying to hold off until DVD9 burners become available, but this drive is freakin' sweet! 12X DVD+R, 8X DVD-R and 48X CD-R! AWESOME DRIVE!

Bah!! Plextor drives are too expensive. Besides, 16x is the next speed grade. 12x is just a brief "layover"

If you're gonna get a 12x burner, I'd wait til OfficeMax puts some Lite-On's on sale for under $100 within the next couple of months or so...look how fast prices on 8x units dropped.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: JackBurton
Man, this fvcking sucks! I was trying to hold off until DVD9 burners become available, but this drive is freakin' sweet! 12X DVD+R, 8X DVD-R and 48X CD-R! AWESOME DRIVE!

Bah!! Plextor drives are too expensive. Besides, 16x is the next speed grade. 12x is just a brief "layover"

If you're gonna get a 12x burner, I'd wait til OfficeMax puts some Lite-On's on sale for under $100 within the next couple of months or so...look how fast prices on 8x units dropped.

Dude, this is an all around great looking burner. 16X isn't gonna save you much time over 12X and the rest of the specs are great. Usually you'll have an 8X burner but will only burn CDs at 24X or 32X. This bad boy does it at 48X and does DVD-R at 8X. I'm replacing my CDRW drive and I want an all around good DVD burner. This thing looks like it can do it all, and you can burn ALOT of 4X DVD+R media at at least 8X, with the option to go faster (12X) in the future.

 

[Tab]

Is 16x the maxium DVD Reading spec we are going to get?

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Is 16x the maxium DVD Reading spec we are going to get?

Yep.

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Is 16x the maxium DVD Reading spec we are going to get?

Probably.

 

[saltedeggman]

its going to cost me an arm and a leg

 

[SunnyD]

Sony and Matsushita are supposedly rolling out consumer Blu-Ray DVD+-RW/RAM drives in June or July...

 

[NFS4]

SATA version:

http://www.plextor.com/english/news/press/712SA_pr.htm

 

[KristopherKubicki]

DVDR will probably get up to 20X. 16X is getting up there though. The physical limitation is the bus not the media.

As I mentioned in another thread, plextor told me availability is going to be around April. I dont know about 16x being much of a layover, it really depends on your point of view. 16x was supposed to be here by now acccording to the Taiwan manufacturers - good luck trying to get some media to burn at 16x

I saw this burner at CES working 12X on MCC 003. The SATA stuff is very cool although it is bridged. Pretty excited to see some production models.

Kristopher

 

[cliftonite]

PX-712A - late April - $209
PX-712SA - May - $229

Thats what i read on cdrlabs.

 

[Imdmn04]

They better release some media to go along with it.
I can hardly find any 8x media.

 

[Sid59]

will hold my 4x (=\) burner until it tops out at 16x and dual layer is available.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: cliftonite
PX-712A - late April - $209
PX-712SA - May - $229

Thats what i read on cdrlabs.

thats not that bad, i expected worse. anyway, i for one am satisfied with a $75 rebaged 8x nec

 

[Belzer]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
DVDR will probably get up to 20X. 16X is getting up there though. The physical limitation is the bus not the media.

The rotation speed is a limit. At 16x you have about 9200 rpm and most manufacturers agree that 16x will be the max. But sure there might be some manufacturers that try to push it >16x just like some companies have released 54x CD burners but no one has AFAIK released any DVD-ROM faster than 16x yet so I'm sceptical. Besides you will not save much time on it and I doubt you will get a good burn quality.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Belzer

The rotation speed is a limit. At 16x you have about 9200 rpm and most manufacturers agree that 16x will be the max. But sure there might be some manufacturers that try to push it >16x just like some companies have released 54x CD burners but no one has AFAIK released any DVD-ROM faster than 16x yet so I'm sceptical. Besides you will not save much time on it and I doubt you will get a good burn quality.

You have it. The breakthrough to go faster would be dual lasers writing simultaneously and that would be expensive with the firmware required to make sure they do not interfer with each others work.


Those folks kicking themselves... Remember that it has been announced, but not available. If memory serves, the 8x announcement was made about 2 months before you might actually see one (or was it 3?) I have not yet seen 8x media in a retail store, so I don't think 12x will be available readily before the summer. 12x is not twice as fast as 8x, but 8x is twice as fast as 4x, so it is not a really big jump comparitively. On the horizon are both DVD-9 writers (Q4) and HD-DVD writers (remember, Blu-Ray has not been chosen for DVD set tops), so you can probably skip a speed bump in your technolust. See, it is not so bad that you bought a 708. Hey, Plextor might even figure out how to flash you 708 faster. So, feeling better yet?

 

[AIWGuru]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
DVDR will probably get up to 20X. 16X is getting up there though. The physical limitation is the bus not the media.

As I mentioned in another thread, plextor told me availability is going to be around April. I dont know about 16x being much of a layover, it really depends on your point of view. 16x was supposed to be here by now acccording to the Taiwan manufacturers - good luck trying to get some media to burn at 16x

I saw this burner at CES working 12X on MCC 003. The SATA stuff is very cool although it is bridged. Pretty excited to see some production models.

Kristopher

I'm not sure where you got this info but...

1x in DVD is 1350Kb/sec aprx. 16x is about 21 megs a second. That doesn't even max out ata 33. Forget 66, 100 or SATA.

The limit is, and will continue to be the speed at which the disc spins. Just as CDs maxed out at 52x (without multiple read heads) DVDs max out at 16x. It's the fastest the discs can spin.