We had originally received the DVR-111DBK and DVR-111 burners from Pioneer, both with 1.06 firmware installed. Since then, we released the review for the DVR-111DBK a couple of days ago.

The DW-G120A is the latest released drive from Sony, supporting all the required DVD formats. It supports 8X writing speeds for the DL media, while also it is able to burn DVD-RAM discs at 5X, which is something that you may not find in many drives out there.

This time we are going to review the latest released drive from Pioneer, the DVR-111DBK. The drive offers all the required features, such as 8X DL burning, as well as 5X DVD-RAM reading.

Recently, we reviewed the Plextor PX-755A with the first official firmware release. Now a new firmware, v1.02, is already available and it is a great opportunity to repeat some of the tests.

The PX-760A offers 18X writing speed for DVD+/-R media, which makes it the only drive to date that offers this speed. However, the DVD-R DL writing speed remains at 6X, while it can burn DVD+R DL at 10X.

Samsung is a major manufacturer of storage devices in the optical storage industry. With SATA becoming increasingly popular, in the case of DVD burners however, there are not many currently available on the market.

Recently, we received from Memorex their latest 16X internal burner, which supports up to 8X burning speed for DVD+R DL and 6X for DVD-R DL media.