First look: BenQ DW1640 DVD Burner

Positive:

• Supports DVD+R/R9 DL/-R at 16x/8x/16x
• Supports CD-R/RW at 48x/32x
• Supports bitsetting for all types of DVD+R/R9 DL/RW (sets auto. booktype to DVD-ROM)
• Supports disc quality scanning
• Can read 99/100 minutes CD-R’s
• Reads DVD+R/-R at 16x
• Reads DVD+RW/R9 DL/-RW at 12x
• Reads DVD-Video SL/DL at 16x/12x
• Good Software package
• Cheap price

Negative:

• Does not support Mt. Rainier
• Does not support LightScribe
• Reads CD-RW only at 40x
• Green LED for both reading and writing

Conclusion:

To sum it all up, this is what we would say: ‘So far this drive looks impressive, but let us wait for the complete review to draw any final conclusion”.

By using our price grabber feature cdfreaks.pricegrabber we didn’t find any offers, but at getprice the drive is listed at 68.90 €. (22. April 2005).

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Thanks to: 

Conrexx Technology B.V./RITEK Europe ’“ The Netherlands for providing the Traxdata DVD+RW 8x and DVD-RW 6x used in this article.

Verbatim GmbH – Germany for providing the DVD+R 16x, DVD+R9 DL 2.4 and CD-RW 24x media used in this review.

Verbatim – UK for providing the DVD-R 16x media used in this review.