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Pioneer DVR-A05 Review

Posted by Hemos on from the learning-'bout-it dept.

kila_m writes " Over at DVD Writers we have the world's first review of the recently announced Pioneer DVR-A05 DVD writer. It supports 4 speed DVD-R writing, 2 speed DVD-RW, 16 speed CD-R and is able to write to CD-RW disks at 8 speed. The review is based on a pre-release unit and is fairly comprehensive. " The review itself is one level deeper.

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  1. Looks Good by e8johan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I hope that I actually get the manual in the complete release:

    "The package contains:

    1 x Pioneer DVR-105 DVD Writer
    1 x Manual (online)     "

    I'd have to say that it looks good, even the cons section had an awful lot of items solved by having a second read-only drive (which you usually have).

    When on the subject I'd like to discuss a reliability issue. Burned CDs, and even more CDRWs, have a tendency to break after a while (don't expect a CDRW to hold data more than 1-2 years). Judging from the added complexity I doubt that burned DVDs are better. How does a burned DVD rate as a backup media? What is the error rate compared to your average tape?

    1. Re:Looks Good by timeOday · · Score: 4, Interesting
      Burned CDs, and even more CDRWs, have a tendency to break after a while (don't expect a CDRW to hold data more than 1-2 years).
      Where did you get that? Try 200 years.

      Granted, nobody will no for sure until these things start failing. But since most of us reading this have already had CDR-drives for more than the 1-2 years you estimate, we know you're wrong.

  2. Reasonable CDR speed. by mikedaisey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm just thrilled that it writes CDRs at 16x...I'm using an 8x notebook burner now, so I was resolved not to take a hit in speed when I get an external DVD writer. At 16x I think a lot of people can finally get one drive for all their burning needs, rather than a seperate CDRW and DVD-R.

    There will be exceptions, if you need (or think you need) superfast burning. but this is welcome news.