CD Freaks has posted a review of Philips new dual layer DVD+R drive, the DVDRW885. Capable of writing to DVD+R media at 8x, DVD+RW media at 4x, and DVD+R DL media at 2.4x (support for DVD-R media at 4x and DVD-RW media at 2x will be added in a firmware update soon), the drive specs are slower than several other drives, including NEC's inexpensive but high-quality ND-2510A. Is it worth your money? Here's a snippet from the review:

The first thing that comes to mind will of course be that it supports dual layer writing, a new and exciting technology. Just too bad that dual layer media is not available at reasonable prices yet, we guess it will be 6 Months or so before dual layer media will be priced somewhat decent. The next thing that comes to mind is that it is pretty fast at 8x DVD+R writing and has very good writing quality with DVD+R media, much thanks to the dynamic OPC. It does also write several types of 4x DVD+R media at 8x, and add bitsetting support to this and you have a very good drive if you are only interested in using DVD+R/RW/R DL media.