Its latest duo of high-speed burners underlines Sony's DVD drive ingenuity and market leadership. In fact, The NPD Group ranked Sony number one (based on dollar market share) for DVD burner sales in the combined U.S. retail and reseller markets during August 2003. Sony's award-winning Dual RW drives, which started shipping a year ago this month, were the PC industry's first combination drives to support the DVD+RW, DVD+R,… Read More

Now Plextor customers can tailor their Plextor burner to match their personal taste and lifestyle. The external Spectrum PX-708UF DVD±R/RW drive is available in the following new colors: Ballistic Black, Baby Blue, Ultimate Blue, Granny Apple Green, Precious Pale Green, Lavish Lavender, Outrageous Orange, Pretty Pink, Radical Red, Sterling Silver, Wicked White, and Yummy Yellow. The new drive is available exclusively from Plextor distributor… Read More

The RS430G (about $1,400) has the Giga Pocket feature and DVD burner — which works as a 4/2/2X DVD-RW, 4/2.4/2.4X DVD+RW, and 16/10/32X CD-RW drive — as well as Intel's Pentium 4/2.8C processor with 800MHz bus and Hyper-Threading; 512MB of DDR333 memory; a 120GB hard disk; and ATI's 128MB Radeon 9200 AGP card. The RS420 ($1,050 after a $100 mail-in rebate) is similarly equipped with no Giga Pocket recorder and a 64MB… Read More

The new Plextor drive helps remove the risk of purchasing a DVD/CD burner that does not comply with future DVD recording standards, and gives customers greater flexibility in choosing which DVDrecordable media they use today. Plextor's PX-708A drive supports 8X DVD+R and 4X DVD-R Writing; 4X DVD+RW and 2X DVD-RW Rewriting; and 12X max DVD-Reading. The new DVD/CD burner also boasts high-speed 40X CD-R Writing, 24X CD-RW Rewriting, and… Read More