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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?