CDFreaks has posted their review of Lite-On's dual format DVD writer, the LDW-411S. Here's a snippet:
The out-of-the-box performance of this drive was not very good as there were a few serious DVD-R/RW writing issues present. But thankfully Lite-On released firmware FS0F that cured these problems and made the drive become a strong competitor to most other DVD-Writers. So if you have not already upgraded the firmware to version FS0F (or newer) we suggest that you do that to get the best experience with the drive.
The DVD writing is done at 4X for both DVD+R and DVD-R, for the most part it’s very good and provides good write quality on most types of media. The general media support is just as good as most other drives and there is few that is better, the write quality is also very good on good discs compared to the competition. It even writes some low quality discs like CMC Magnetics and Princo with outstanding quality. All in all there are no big problems with DVD-Writing according to our tests.
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