DVD-Rs go 8x 237
DiZASTiX writes "It seems that the next speed level for DVD Writers is here. "The race for Xs is still on and Plextor has gone into the lead with the PX-708A, what Plextor claims is the first commercialized 8X DVD recorder. At this speed, a 4.5 GB DVD+R takes under 9 minutes to record. That is about the same as a CD in just over a minute. What we wanted to know was whether the reliability and compatibility of blank supports suffer from this breakneck speed...""
When does this quote get old... (Score:5, Funny)
from this breakneck speed...
Kinda like when the blazing fast 166 MHz pentiums come out, you know in a year people will be scoffing at 8x DVD speed
the slowdown in writing is dirty media (Score:4, Funny)
Id like to see two ratings for burnable media. Something like 8X when new and clean, 2X when smeared with grape jam and peanut butter or somethin. :D
Re:DVD-Rs go 8x (Score:3, Funny)
Wouldn't that be called a floppy disk.
Always the way (Score:5, Funny)
Of course it is - I just bought a 4x DVD burner yesterday. 8+(
Re:DVD-Rs go 8x (Score:4, Funny)
It wouldn't fit, so I got really mad, and hammered it in. It still didn't work.
Then my friend came back from his vacation, and he wasn't happy. So now I'm looking at these DVD-R things.
I dunno..I might wait and see...sheez enough (Score:2, Funny)