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Postby tazdevl on Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:56 pm

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1408258,00.asp

Enjoy.

Looks like I'm not selling my 708A any time soon.

Won't write 8X on 4X media.
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Postby Gazza on Wed Dec 10, 2003 2:54 pm

Why would you even think about selling your plexie :lol:
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Postby Dartman on Wed Dec 10, 2003 3:28 pm

And I don't think I'll buy another Sony either. The 500 was first and they gave you a upgrade in speed for free but now they go back to typical Sony and even appear to be just OEMing a drive again instead of building another themselves.
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Postby Ian on Wed Dec 10, 2003 3:29 pm

Hmm.. its good to know that I'm not the only one getting graphs like this:

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Hopefully its not the Verbatim media doing it. I'll have to see when my Ritek 8x DVD+R media shows up.
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Postby MikeTR on Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:29 pm

Ian wrote:Hmm.. its good to know that I'm not the only one getting graphs like this:

Hopefully its not the Verbatim media doing it. I'll have to see when my Ritek 8x DVD+R media shows up.


Ouch :( . Are those Verbatim MCCs? If so, how does it burn on TYs? Haven't tried those myself yet (were still way too expensive). Will pick up some after the weekend. See how mine does.
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Postby Ian on Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:37 pm

Yeah, I get a graph like this when writing to Verbatim 8x DVD+R media. I'm not sure whether its the media or if the drive does it by design.

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I'm waiting for the Ritek media to see.
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Postby MikeTR on Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:42 pm

No matter what causes it, I hope Verbatim and Plextor put their heads together and sort it out. This doesn't make either of them look good.
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Postby BMR on Thu Dec 11, 2003 2:20 am

MikeTR wrote:No matter what causes it, I hope Verbatim and Plextor put their heads together and sort it out. This doesn't make either of them look good.


For now I have been quite happy writting full two hour movies to my Memorex DVD +R's in 8min using the Plextor 708A. If this continues, who cares about overpriced 8X media. I will wait unitil the 8X stuff is mainstream and the same price as 4X media.

By the way: will there be a 708A firmware upgrade to 1.4 anytime soon ??

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Postby RJW on Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:04 am

Note the picture states Plextor on 4x +R media burn.
You may not expect 4x media to work perfect at 8x.

However quite some media can reach the speed (However burning on full speed doesn't mean great writing quality. I can remember the pictures of Plextor 708 with it's first firmware and with ricoh and TY media. TY didn't reach full speed still the quality was better. The ricoh disc did burn at 8x but the quality of the 6x starting part was horrible !)
A lot of companny's use the same dye for 4x and 8x media !
Some even think that there dye can go on up to 16x. Well see about that one(Note the quality on 4x is allready poor still it could be optimised for very highspeeds but I don't think so !)

So is the title for the Plextor is incorrect os is only the sony messing up on real 8x media.

Second is this 4x Verbatim a TY or MCC disc ?
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Postby konsolen on Thu Dec 11, 2003 7:36 am

hi!is the plex graph bad??
i think its better when he start the burn with 6x?
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Postby kirpen on Thu Dec 11, 2003 10:24 am

I dont understand why they couldnt use a least ine 8x disc in the plex drive.
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Postby Ian on Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:38 pm

kirpen wrote:I dont understand why they couldnt use a least ine 8x disc in the plex drive.


That graph is from the review they did a month or two back. 8x DVD+R media wasn't available at the time. Why they posted a graph with an obvious slow down at the end is beyond me though. You'd think they'd want a better (more accurate) example of the Plextor's writing method.
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