Thursday, November 11, 2004
Review of Pioneer DVR-A08XL
Posted by James Fee in "ARTICLE" @ 11:00 AM
"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. "
We saw a review 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)
We saw a review 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)
