Plextor Europe announces PX-504A - 4x DVD+RW drive

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Plextor Europe announces PX-504A - 4x DVD+RW drive

One of the biggest names in the optical storage industry Plextor has released more information about their latest drive; the Plextor PX-504A. While many companies are currently planning to release dual format drives, Plextor has choosen to go with the DVD+ format. Their first drive is writing DVD+R discs at 4x.

The IDE drive will write DVD at 4x, CD-R at 16x, rewrite DVD at 2.4x , CD-RW at 10x and read DVDs at 12x and CDs at 40x. The drive comes with a buffer underrun protection and has a access time of < 120ms for CDs and < 140ms for DVDs. The European package also includes the popular software package Plextools.

Writing DVD: 4x, CD: 16x
Rewriting DVD: 2.4x, CD: 10x
Reading DVD: 12x, D: 40x
Buffer Underrun Proof Technology
PoweRec Technology (Plextor Optimised Writing Error Reduction Control)
Access Time <120 ms for CD; 140 ms for DVD
2MB Buffer
E-IDE (ATAPI) interface
Compatible with: Windows 95, Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, MacOs
MultiRead Compatible
Supports SPDIF (Digital Audio Output)
High Quality Digital Audio Extraction
A black tray, to reduce the jitter and to increase the quality of the burned CD

Two year* full-warranty (parts, labor and replacement) with On-Site Collect & Return** service
Writes CD-ROM Modes 1 and 2, CD-XA Form 1 and 2, CD-DA, CD-I, Video CD & Photo CD.
Reads/Writes DVD-ROM, DVD-video, Multi-Border, Multisession
Write methods (DVD+R/RW) supports Sequential Write, Random Access Write, DAO
Supports DVD+VR format
Creates Audio CD, CD Extra, Enhanced CD, Photo CD, CD-I & Video CD Titles.
Supports Disk-At-Once, Track-At-Once, Multisession, Packet Writing modes.
Wide CD-R and CD-RW media compatibility (74min and Type80 - 79min)
Includes PlexTools

The recommended price of the drive will be 315 EURO. Earlier LG and Lite-On announced dual format drives for below $200.

Discuss this new drive on our Plextor Forum and let us know what you think about this new drive!

Source: Plextor

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Posted by Kenshin on Wednesday 22 January 2003 10:46

Plextor 4x DVD+R writer drive and Verbatim 4x DVD+R media should make a best combination.

Posted by on Wednesday 22 January 2003 15:14

Bah! Gimmie a LiteOn dual rewriter. DVD-R media is a lot cheaper over here in the UK also.

Posted by Kenshin on Wednesday 22 January 2003 18:14

Then ask the media manufacturers and importers to supply 4x DVD+R.

Posted by on Wednesday 22 January 2003 21:23

This is an NEC ND-1100A. It doesn't have DVD- capabilities because NEC is preventing their partners to get that capability in the firmware, even though the drive is phsyically capable. NEC will be releasing a DVD- DVD+ drive in March. That's why this drive isn't being released with DVD-.

Posted by Kenshin on Thursday 23 January 2003 01:47

@PreacherBoy

If you can tell us about it more, post on the forum thread #60975 please.

Posted by on Thursday 23 January 2003 20:03

I could, but no thanks.

Posted by on Sunday 26 January 2003 22:34

Preacherboy : Dunno about that mate. Since when did Plextor EVER use another drive and relabel it? I can't think of a single instance.

A bit of a disappointing start for Plex though, I was hoping for a dual drive. Guess Lite-On will up to come up with the goods :4

Posted by DoMiN8ToR on Monday 27 January 2003 16:47

PeteB, the rumor is intresting, and I have asked Plextor for a reply. Your statement about Plextor not using another drive and relabelling it is not true.

We recently discovered that [url=http://www.cdfreaks.com/document.php3?Doc=100]this[/url] Plextor drive is a rebadged Teac and we have another model that is a rebadged NEC.

But as said, we're waiting for a reply from Plextor.

Posted by on Monday 27 January 2003 18:28

Wow I stand corrected, thanks DoMiN8ToR. Thing is that I'm more disappointed in Plextor.

Seems that PC bits are going the way of cars, in that there are only 4 manufacturers or so in the world, and the rest are just rebadged

Posted by on Tuesday 28 January 2003 17:58

They've used NEC before, in the case of the slim-line CD-R/RW DVD-ROM combo. As DoMiN8ToR pointed out, the latest slim-line is a TEAC DW-224E.

Maybe Plextor will answer you, but I doubt it. At any rate, they are NEC drives. I don't post rumors.

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