The Plextor PX-B300SA is a dual-layer internal DVD drive for PCs and uses a SATA connection. It is priced highly competitively and offers an ideal entry into high definition... more
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System Requirements Details: Pentium D - 3.2 GHz - RAM 1 GB - HD 30 GB
Manufacturer's product description
The Plextor PX-B300SA is a dual-layer internal DVD drive for PCs and uses a SATA connection. It is priced highly competitively and offers an ideal entry into high definition playback for consumers. It combines all the DVD standards into one single drive.
Optical storage
Supported CD Formats: CD Text, CD Extra, CD-DA (audio), CD-I, CD-ROM XA, Mixed-mode CD, Photo CD, Video CD, CD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD+VR, DVD-VR
Access Time: 160 ms (DVD), 180 ms (DVD-RAM), 150 ms (CD), 210 ms (HD DVD), 180 ms (BD)
Buffer Size: 4 MB
Buffer Underrun Protection: BURN-Proof
Features: Emergency disc eject hole
Compliant Standards: Video CD
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x Serial ATA-150
Compatible Bays: 1 x front accessible - 5.25" x 1/2H
Miscellaneous
MTBF: 100,000 hour(s)
Software / system requirements
Software Included: Ulead DVD MovieFactory, Ulead Burn.Now, InterVideo WinDVD 8
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2, Microsoft Windows Vista
Advantages: Fast, reliable, most formats supported great support and regular firmware updates. Disadvantages: Supports CD-G copy/writting but has no CD-G Player, supports -R DL but there are no disks available...
...It would have saved a lot of time if you visited plextors website for a true account of the features and formats supported by this trully superdrive. As well as software bundled.
If not Goggle Plextor and away you go...
I got the retail package since I wanted the black bezel (quite easy to change and should be done with great care). So much for the bundled software since I have all the full retail version of the Usual titles I.E. Nero, Ulead Videostudio, etc... If you need it to start up then it is a very complete package.
As easy to install as 1, 2 done....
One great addition is the Plextools professional which provides a better access to all the feature on the drive, like secure rec, and CD-G burn, Amongst others, not so much that I use them anyway but there if you are after those functions and are a little adventurous...
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Advantages: Looks Nice Disadvantages: Doesn't work
...Hi,
Purchased this Plextor 708a 8x DVD writer + and - format from Silicon Group about two months ago.
I was so pleased I got this drive as it was suppsed to be one of the best - Plextor quality - ha ha.
Anyway, from the day i got it there was a problem. Every burn had rings on the written side. I thought it was bad media, so after purchasing many brands from cheapo to very expensive it was still doing it.
I contacted Plextor support and there excuse was cheap media, or faulty media.
I thought No this is not right. I then began to think it was my PC - so after hauling it all out and taking it to my dads pc to try it burned these rings on his !! Ding Ding - its not my machine it the writer thats faulty.
I then visited some forums online too see if there was a problem, mamy people say that it required a firmware update - off I go...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
I've had this external dvd burner for about a week now and i have to say it was money well spent.
It can record on pretty much every type of disc out there, at a really high speed:
CD-R (48X)
CD-RW (32X)
CD-ROM (48X)
DVD+/-R (18X)
DVD+/-RW... more
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