Plextor PX-708A DVD Writer Review

By Ian Bell August 7, 2004

Quote from the review at Voided Warranty:

“The Plextor PX-708A offers multiformat support and is marketed as one of the first drives to burn DVD+R at 8X, burning over 4gb of data in just over 8 minutes. Its other recording capabilities include DVD+RW at 4X, DVD-R at 4X, DVD-RW at 2X, CD-R at 40X and CD-RW at 24X. This review is more or less a freebie for Plextor because they can’t afford to give away this drive for the review. Instead they offered this drive at a discounted price. Which I have no idea what that discount will be. With that fact known, this review will not be affected by their marketing practice. But it will affect my decision on choosing which manufacturer to purchase optical products from, it won’t be Plextor.”

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