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Plextor PX-716UF - DVDRW (dual layer) drive - Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394 (FireWire) ( PX-716UF/SW-UM )
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Plextor PX-716UF - DVDRW (dual layer) drive - Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394 (FireWire) ( PX-716UF/SW-UM )

Average customer rating:

Finally a drive that recognizes all blank DVD media
Dont waist you money

Plextor PX-716UF - DVDRW (dual layer) drive - Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394 (FireWire) ( PX-716UF/SW-UM )

Manufacturer: Plextor
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

Verbatim DVD+R Double Layer Solution Kit
Verbatim 3 Pack 8.5GB DVD+R Double Layer DVDs with Jewel Case (95014)

ASIN: B00068S59O

Product Description

The PX-716UF DVD DVD?R/RW external IEEE 1394 and Hi-Speed USB drive from Plextor offers all the advantages of its legendary CD-RW drives. Along with double layer and dual format capabilities, the PX-716UF is also supported by Intelligent Recording technology to enhance your recording activities.The drive achieves blazing fast 16X CAV performance on recommended 8X DVD+R media, and burns a 4.7GB DVD in less than six minutes, the drive also supports dual-layer DVD media, enabling users to burn up to four hours of high-quality.

Customer Reviews:

Finally a drive that recognizes all blank DVD media.......2007-01-05

Neither the built-in NEC DVD+R, an added internal IOMagic DVD+-R, nor an external Sony DVD+-R will even allow me to try to record many of the blank DVD media. They simply don't recognize them as recordable discs. And when they do, the success rate has been very low.

So I took a chance paying more (~$200) for the Plextor and both problems have been eliminated. I have had only one burn failure and at least 50 successful ones so far. Thus, I give this unit top marks. As far as the bundled software goes, I never even tried to install it after reading the previous review and similar reviews on other sites.

The drive is very quiet and solidly built. I'm happy I can now use my collection of various manufacturer's blank discs.

Dont waist you money.......2005-06-17

I like the drive. I upgraded from a 708UF. However the Roxio Software that ships with the drive is very unstable. As a matter of fact it installs a packet writer driver that will tear up your system. You can not uninstall this software unless you uninstall all the included software.

The only way I can keep my computer from constantly rebooting is to turn off the 716UF.

Plextor has been no help. The only comment they had was to take the drive back for a refund.

Im currently using the software that came with my 708 drive and if I had the chance I would return the 716uf drive but my daugter managed to grab my 708 drive so Im stuck.

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