CDFreaks has posted their review of Plextor's new 8x dual format DVD recorder. Definitely worth a visit. Here is a little bit of their review:

With their new PX-708A drive Plextor has simply put together a great drive. The PX-708A is the world's first 8x DVD+R recorder and thus, from now on, you can burn a complete DVD in around 8 minutes. Besides supporting the world's highest DVD+R recording speeds the dual format DVD recorder doesn't lack speed when it comes to recording other types of media. For instance, the drive supports 4x recording to both DVD+RW media and DVD-R media. And, as a welcome addition, we finally have a DVD recorder that also supports fast CD-R (40x) and CD-RW (24x) recording speeds.

When it came to CD read performance the Plextor drive showed great performance. The drive was able to read all kinds of CD media at maximum speed, including CD-RW media and audio discs. The Plextor drive also performed pretty well when reading DVD media. Although the drive was limited to 2x when reading DVD-Video discs, it could read DVD�R(W) media at 8x.

As we already mentioned the Plextor PX-708A supports the world's fastest DVD+R recording speeds and because 8x DVD+R media is currently not available, the Plextor drive can record certain 4x certified DVD+R media at 8x. During our review we found that the drive was able to do this without any problems. When looking at the drive's performance when recording other types of media we also can't complain. One thing that did bother us was the drive's write quality with certain low quality CD-R media. But, on the other hand, when we used quality media like Maxell and Taiyo Yuden there were no problems.