A Recorder With Appeal
The recorder industry is buzzing with excitement. After the + and - format duel, which resulted in a tie, the manufacturers turned their attention to speed, now their only source of difference. With the two formats and the two recording types - writable and rewritable - we now have four figures that can be improved.
Plextor is now leader of the pack with its PX-708A recording DVD+Rs at an 8X speed. For the rest, the Plextor is faster than the other ones around at the moment with 4X in DVD+RW, 4X in DVD-R and 2X in DVD-RW. The table below gives the specs for the PX-708A.
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| Plextor PX-708A | |
|---|---|
| Format | Dual DVD-R/RW - DVD+R/RW |
| Memory cache | 2 MB |
| Firmware version | 1.01 |
| Speed | |
| Read speed, CD | 40x (6 MB/s) CAV |
| Read speed, DVD | 12x (16,2 MB/s) CAV |
| Write speed, CD-R | 40x (6 MB/s) P-CAV |
| Write speed, CD-RW | 24x (3,6 MB/s) CAV |
| Write speed, DVD-R | 4x (5,4 MB/s) CLV |
| Write speed, DVD+R | 8x (11 MB/s) Z-CLV |
| Write speed, DVD-RW | 2x (2,7 MB/s) CLV |
| Write speed, DVD+RW | 4x (5,4 MB/s) CLV |
| Access Time | |
| CD | 100 ms |
| DVD | 150 ms |
| Supported Reading Format | |
| CD | CD-DA, CD-Extra, CD-ROM Mode-1, CD-ROM Mode-2, CD-ROM XA, Photo-CD, Video-CD, Multisession, CD TEXT, CD-I, CD+G, UDF |
| DVD | DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, Multiborder, Multisession, DVD+VR, DVD-VR (Read only) |
| Supported Writing Format | |
| CD | Track at Once, Disc at Once, Packet Write (variable and fixed), Multisession, Session at Once, CD-MRW (Mt. Rainier) |
| DVD | DVD+R/RW : Sequential Write, Multisession, Random Access Write DVD+MRW (Physical formatting in background)DVD-R/R : Disc at Once, Incremental recording, Multiborder recording, Restricted Overwritin |
