Woo Hoo! - Plextor has released new 8x DVD-R firmware for the PX-708A!!

[BillGates]

It's only listed on their European site so far - they always seem first to release the firmware for their drives.

Link

8x DVD-R and DVD+R writing is now possible!


Firmware revision notes:




PX-708A/UF V1.06

Fixed Bugs:
If DVD-R/RW medium is written by using the firmware version 1.05, a medium that cannot be recognized with some DVD devices may be created.


PX-708A/UF V1.05

Added:
Support for newer DVD-R media.
(Including support 2x/4x speed writing on 8x DVD-R media)
Support for newer DVD-RW media.
(Including support 2x speed writing on 4x DVD-RW media)

Improvements:
Write performance on DVD media.
High Speed write performance on CD-R media.

 

[BillGates]

Holy WTF - I thought I was posting this to General Hardware. Must've used the wrong window. Sorry - please move!