Sony DRU-500AX user reviews

Summary Installed like a dream, first DVD was started minutes later and completed 4.65GB in 21 minutes on a +RW disk. Veritas is a bit clumsy but handles my Sony CDRW writer as well. I had to give up Roxio which is a shame (its incompatible and removed when you install Veritas). Have yet to burn my first Video DVD which is the main reason I bought the drive, that's the plan this weekend. Only niggle is that some CD-RWs were unreadable in the drive, but fine in my CD recorder. Maybe its trying to do too much at once?

Summary Sony is an EXCELLENT choice. You should ONLY buy a multifunction burner that supports BOTH the (+) plus and (-) minus flavors of DVDR/W... otherwise you'll have a doubly useless POS. I don't mind the price for bleeding edge. I do mind LIMITED USEABILITY. Get your act together sony -- especially on the Windows XP front. DONT back away from multi-flavor support. That's the RIGHT PHILOSOPHY. No sane person would consider anything less. remarkable drive is the first to support all four popular formats (DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW). That's the way to go. Grip #2: turn UP the speed on CDR and CDRW. C'mon. I don't want to take a speed hit to get more features. That's just plain silly