CDFreaks has posted a review of Lite-On IT's sub-$100 8x dual format DVD burner, the SOHW-812S. There's even comparisons to current popular 8x drives: Pioneer's DVR-107 and NEC's ND-2500A. Here's a snippet from the review:
To sum it all up, this is the best we could say: "A good all-round drive, but writing quality needs some polishing." The writing quality at 8x DVD+R speed is very good, and the writing quality with most quality 4x discs is good too. CD-Writing is both fast (40x) and good with almost all disc types. On top of this it supports bitsetting for DVD+R/RW discs.
Most people will probably be a bit disappointed by the writing quality on some cheap DVDR discs, and it can’t keep up with the quality offered by drives from NEC and Pioneer. And as a surprise to us it does also have some problems with most ReWritable disc types and the writing quality is not as good as it should have been.
You can read the entire review over at the CDFreaks web site.
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