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The Philips DVD CD-Rewriter Combi is a drive that reads and rewrites CD media and reads DVDs.
The drive's main interest is provided by blue LEDs and a 3.5cm strip that illuminates in blue when reading and orange when writing. There's also a 3.5mm headphone jack and thumb wheel volume control, while the large eject button has blue highlights and a manual eject hole. It's bundled with Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum for CD authoring, power and E-IDE connecting cables.
Philips has included two technologies to help ensure successful writes to CD-R/RW media. It has Seamless Link buffer underrun protection to go along with its 2Mb buffer, as well as a newer technology called Thermo Balanced Writing.
This does a test burn on CD-R media and analyses the result, altering the laser power and write speed accordingly. In this way, Philips claims that the drive can adjust to varying media quality.
Although it's a combination drive, the device's performance is not compromised.
A CDRom WinBench 99 score of 1,870 puts it ahead of AOpen's CRW2440, a 24/10/40 CD-RW drive. The maximum transfer rate of 3,610Kbps and access time of 86.4ms are also impressive.
However, it's very noisy, to the extent that it could prove distracting during quiet DVD-Video scenes.
Price £183.48 (ex. VAT)
Specifications:
Read speed: 40X
Write speed: 20X
Rewrite speed: 10X
DVD read speed: 12X
Software: Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum.
Contact: Philips 0800 896 324
www.philips.co.uk
See also:
All Optical Drives (CD/DVD Drive)
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