Pioneer's DVR-A03 reviewed
Posted on 12/06/01 16:13 by                              
Pioneer's DVR-A03 reviewed
Hardwareinfo.net reviewed Pioneer's DVR-A03 DDVD Writer. This is the first DVD recorder available in stores that can be bought for an affordable amount of money.
The test makes quite clear that DVD recording is still in a very early stage. Although the drive just writes DVD's like it should do, overall perfomance is pretty low and not at all what we are used of from Pioneer. Especially reading CD's (CDR, CDRW, DAE etc) is done really slow. Also, the drive is really noisy.

Recording a DVD (100% used) takes about 29 minutes. That's not 2 bad for 4,7 Gb.
This is a DVD-R drive.

For the moment, I don't think the drive to be intresting to us CD Freakers. The drive is really expensive and sometimes a movie on DVD is cheaper than a blank DVD disc. It's also made impossible to copy protected DVD's (at least, it should me impossible )...

I'll just wait

Source: Hardwareinfo

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By DanDaMan1487, Tue 12 Jun 2001 19:32
DanDaMan1487Hey, these DVD writers probably let you burn .vob files from your hard drive, right? Then by using a DeCSS-based decrypter to decrypt and copy the files to your HD, you can re-burn them on the blank DVD. Of course right now they are a bit expensive, but it will be very good when they go down to a dollar for a piece of blank DVD+R!
By Dee-ehn, Tue 12 Jun 2001 20:40
Dee-ehnU R wright Smilie that indeed is the way of copying DVD movies with this piece of hardware...
By Guest, Wed 13 Jun 2001 12:41
But what about dual layer DVD's, arent most movies that are being released now upwards of 9 gigs because of dual layer? What is the solution to recording with this problem?

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