Phillip Chudy wrote: News that 9gb 16 write DVD writers have just been unleashed
Philip, Not aware of that but, like you, I needed a DVD rewriter a couple of months ago having moved up to RAW file capture and not wanting to spend all my time feeding CDs into my machine to archive them. Knowing little about which were the best models, I relied on the photo press and went with their recommendation and bought a Plextor PX-708A. This is mutli format so gets around the standard wars you rightly refer to; writes at up to 8 speed on DVD+R media (if you can find disks that can reliably take that sort of data hit) and is very reliable. We are really pleased with its performance to date though have found that to get the most reliable recording using cheaper disks (essential if archiving a lot), we have to drop the write speed to 2x. This is not as bad as it sounds, remember you need to multiply the DVD write speed by 9 to get a comparable CD write speed. At 2x it takes about 7 mins to write a Gb. Hope this helps. Jonathan Cavendish Studios Chester UK =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
