Sony DRU-810A 16x DVD±RW review at CDRLabs

Looks like the crew over at CDRLabs has put up another in-depth review for us to check out. This time it's a Sony offering and below we can take a look at a small portion of the conclusion. It appears that Ian has a favorable opinion of the Sony, as he gives it an impressive 9 out of 10 rating.

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When it came to media compatibility, the DRU-810A gave us some mixed results. The drive wrote to most of our test media at its rated speeds, but like Sony's previous 16x DVD writers, it was not able to write to any 8x DVD±R discs at 16x. While this is becoming less of an issue as more 16x media becomes available, it's still a nice feature to have. Nevertheless, the DRU-810A's writing quality was, for the most part, pretty good. However, there's still room for improvement, especially with Optodisc 16x DVD+R and Ritek DVD+R DL media. Hopefully Sony can tweak this in a future firmware update.

The DRU-810A also did very well in our DVD read tests. The drive was able to read both single layer data and video DVD-ROM's at speeds as high as 16x and had some pretty good seek times. Reading recordable media wasn't a problem for the DRU-810A either. In our tests, it read DVD±R discs at 16x and both DVD±RW and DVD±R DL media at an impressive 12x.

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For those of you out there that are interested in this drive, you can be sure that you will get the full scoop over at CDRLabs. When done, feel free to stop
by the BenQ/Philips Forum, since this drive is based on BenQ 1640.
There are already a few threads in there for this drive by jan70, jsl and code65536, to discuss this new hardware.

Source: CDRLabs

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