Sony DRX710UL DVD+R Double Layer External DVD+-RW Drive (16x)
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Binding: Electronics Brand: Sony EAN: 0027242657762 Feature: Burns DVD+R discs at 16X maximum Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Model: DRX-710UL Publisher: Sony Studio: Sony Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features
Burns DVD+R discs at 16X maximum Burns 8.5 GB DVD+R DL (Double Layer)1 discs, capable of storing up to 4 hours of MPEG-2 Video on single sided disc with 2 recording layers Burns standard 4.7 GB DVD+/- R and DVD+/- RW Discs and CD-R/RW Award winning Nero™ Software bundle for burning all your video, music and data to DVD or CD Compatible with Windows 2000 or Windows XP Home or Professional Operating Systems
Sony DRX-710UL External Dual-Layer DVD+RW Drive - This external DVD recorder lets you burn data & video to Dual-Layer DVD+R & +RW media. This gives you up to 8.5GB of storage on just one side! Leaving room for printed labels, or marking with a Sharpie on the other. It also records to nearly every other DVD & CD media type available! Up to 48x CD-R Up to 24x CD-RW Up to 48x CD-ROM Up to 16x DVD-ROM Buffer Underrun Protection Includes - USB cable, FireWire cable (6-pin to 6-pin & 6-pin to 4-pin), Software CD, User's Guide, Warranty Card, Nero Burning ROM 6 SE, Nero Express 6, Nero VisionExpress 2 (VCD/SVCD & DVD Authoring), InCD 4, Nero ShowTime, Nero BackItUp, Nero MediaPlayer / Wave Editor, Nero Cover Designer, and Nero Toolkit
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Customer Rating: Summary: Buyer Beware Comment: Should have returned this right away. Sony Support is useless. For my PC to recognize there was a DVD drive I had to turn it off and on repeatedly. All of a sudden the DVD capability does not work . CD's do. I would never buy a Sony anything again. Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent drive - burns well - VERY noisy and not that fast Comment: This drive works perfectly. It's plug-and-play, so it was installed and working in seconds. The drive is extremely noisy when spinning at full speed. And, while it reads very fast, it writes somewhat slow. I have purchased a number of brands of DVD+/-R disks, some claiming 8x and 16x write-able speeds, but the drive doesn't seem to utilize those speeds. With that said, it's certainly faster than my Toshiba laptop's internal DVD writer. It's just not ultra fast. Top quality, though. No problems with it after burning literally hundreds of disks. I'd buy it again, but then mount it in a sound-proof box... Customer Rating: Summary: Has SONY given up their founder's spirit? Comment: I bought one in Nov 2004. Serial Number 5004653. 3 weeks ago, March 2006, 1 year and 3 months after the purchase, it was broken. It can't read data from media. I contacted customer support and heard it costs $19.95 to diagnose, and $150 to fix it. Can you believe this????!!!!
When I bought it, it was $295 in Circuit City, and just after 1 year, it is broken! DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT! DON'T BUY SONY! I have a SONY media center PC(VGC RA820G) that I bought 8 months ago, but one of its DVD drives was also broken several months ago.
I have been a big SONY fan, trusting them for more than 25 years, but not anymore. SONY is no better than other brands. It's actually worse in computing devices field.
Don't waste your money on a SONY product like me. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Item Comment: The Item works great it's exactly what I needed but it did take almost a week to ship and I paid alot expected to have it sooner Customer Rating: Summary: sony are unable to make reliable DVD drives Comment: DON"T BUY THIS JUNK - as soon as microsoft updates any of thier OS - your shiny new SONY drive will be useless.
My drive worked ok-ish (never great), that is until I upgraded to XP service pack 2 - then it never worked again (even just reading disks was impossible).
Sony seem unable to get this area together. Their drives have sooooo many lists of things which you must do to your system in order to get the drive to work properly - this is no plug and play product!! Plus, if things go wrong, be prepared for lackluster product suppport and HUGE prices to fix things if you are a day or so out of warranty.
