James Fee
11-11-2004, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1684196,00.asp?kc=PCRSS02129TX1K0000530' target='_blank'>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1684196,00.asp?kc=PCRSS02129TX1K0000530</a><br /><br /></div>"<i>The Pioneer DVR-A08 is a class act. It's the first drive we've tested to offer all three of the new 16X DVD+R, 16X DVD-R, and 4X DVD+R double-layer recording speeds. It also incorporates several advanced hardware features designed to reduce recording errors, and it includes a comprehensive Ulead-based software bundle that provides a broad range of disc copying and burning, video-production, and data-backup functions. All these features evidently aided the A08 on the test bench. Every disc it burned played correctly in each of our computer and set-top DVD test drives. It produced middling results on our DVD+R, DVD+RW, and CD-R recording tests and ranked dead last on our CD-ripping test. But the A08 greatly outperformed every other model in the roundup when burning DVD-R media, requiring only 7:10 to fill a 4.37GB 8X Verbatim disc at 16X. </i>"<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/0,1311,sz=1&i=83690,00.jpg" /> <br /><br />We <a href="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6172">saw a review</a> of this drive a couple months ago and its still as impressive as it was then. It's always great to see products that both work and look good. I'd love to stick this in a Firewire or USB2 enclosure and have it sitting right on my desk. 8)