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"and 70% of that market segment is Panasonic licensed DVD-R/RAM based and not DVD+. "
True, but this could change very rapidly if the cheapo ESS-based DVD+R/RW standalone recoders would prove to be reasonable in quality. ESS's DVD+R/RW chipset is reported to be dirt cheap, hence a low-budget breaktrough of this format could well be realised in the near future. As price point, our local supermarket is advertising an ESS based DVD-standalone recorder for 348 Euro today (inclusive 21% VAT).
As said, the quality may well suck, but I'm curious enough to give one of these boxes a run for the money. My DVD player is up for retirement anyway, so why not "add a record button" for that price ?
(of course, it has no TimeSlip functionality although I would've liked that too )
As for a PC-DVD engine, nothing I've used so far could beat the Plex 708. Fast, silent, highly media friendly. Burn everything that has a whole in the center, so to speak, and I'm totally surprised by the constant compatibility of the written media at 8x : the only device that simply refuses to read such DVD's are the current line of Xbox's with their bloody stupid Samsung DVD-pickups. (older Xbox's have no such problems, as the Thompson/Philips pickups have no troubles with DVD+R). My only grudge is the laughably small burnproof buffer (2 megs or something), but I have to admit it hasn't produced problems so far : it feels somewhat "off" to see 2 megs on a 8x DVD writer and 6+megs on a budget CDRW engine though....
Take Care,
Kris
True, but this could change very rapidly if the cheapo ESS-based DVD+R/RW standalone recoders would prove to be reasonable in quality. ESS's DVD+R/RW chipset is reported to be dirt cheap, hence a low-budget breaktrough of this format could well be realised in the near future. As price point, our local supermarket is advertising an ESS based DVD-standalone recorder for 348 Euro today (inclusive 21% VAT).
As said, the quality may well suck, but I'm curious enough to give one of these boxes a run for the money. My DVD player is up for retirement anyway, so why not "add a record button" for that price ?
(of course, it has no TimeSlip functionality although I would've liked that too )As for a PC-DVD engine, nothing I've used so far could beat the Plex 708. Fast, silent, highly media friendly. Burn everything that has a whole in the center, so to speak, and I'm totally surprised by the constant compatibility of the written media at 8x : the only device that simply refuses to read such DVD's are the current line of Xbox's with their bloody stupid Samsung DVD-pickups. (older Xbox's have no such problems, as the Thompson/Philips pickups have no troubles with DVD+R). My only grudge is the laughably small burnproof buffer (2 megs or something), but I have to admit it hasn't produced problems so far : it feels somewhat "off" to see 2 megs on a 8x DVD writer and 6+megs on a budget CDRW engine though....
Take Care,
Kris
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