Digital Trends

Sony DRU-800A
Review date: 06/13/2005
"If you are looking for a new DVD writer, the DRU-800A is a good choice and worth the money."

Plextor PlexWriter PX-708A
Review date: 10/01/2003
"If you have been waiting to make a DVD writer purchase, now is the time and the PX-708A is what you will want."

Sony DRU-810A
Review date: 11/13/2005
"The Sony DRU-810A is a solid DVD writer."

Sony VRD-VC20
Review date: 06/07/2005
"The VRD-VC20 is primarily targeted at the consumer who is converting their analog or digital video recordings to DVD..."

Samsung TS-H552U
Review date: 04/04/2005
"the real bottom line is that this is a very reliable drive provided you use the correctly rated media."

Sony DRU-700A
Review date: 09/01/2004
"With Sony's new DRU-700A DVD writer, dual layer DVD recording has finally become a reality."

Sony DRU-530A
Review date: 02/19/2004
"...for overall reliability and speed the Sony DRU-530A is among the top of its class."

Pioneer DVR-S606
Review date: 11/02/2003
"The DVR-S606 looks great, is incredibly quiet and seems to be well thought through."

Plextor PlexWriter PX-504UF
Review date: 08/25/2003
"Plextor has included a robust feature set with plenty of extras in the form of software and recordable media."

TDK AID+440BX
Review date: 06/29/2003
"TDK once again gives us a quality product at a reasonable price in the TDK 440N Indi DVD writer."

MSI DR16-B
Review date: 11/29/2004
"From a price standpoint the DR16-B is a very inexpensive drive"

Pioneer DVR-SK12D
Review date: 11/05/2003
"We cannot argue that the Pioneer drive is great to look at and it would score a 9/10 on the coolness factor alone..."

Plextor PlexWriter PX-708UF
Review date: 10/21/2003
"The PX-708UF is a relatively fast and reliable drive, but it lacks the ability to daisy chain other FireWire devices through it..."

Plextor PX-504A
Review date: 04/20/2003
"The overall performance of the PX-504A is average, but the mediocre speed and buffer underruns disappointed us."

Philips DVDRW228
Review date: 03/03/2003
"Philips initial DVD+R/RW offering appears to stand out from the crowd."

MSI DR4-A DVD Writer
Review date: 01/20/2004
"Other than the DVD finalizing problem we encountered, the DR4-A performed exceptionally well in all of our other tests."

HP dvd400i
Review date: 12/15/2003
"Overall HP offers a software package above and beyond what most other manufacturers are offering with their DVD writers."