Sony’s DVD Burner incorporates 8.5GB DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer burning and dual Format 4.7GB DVD burning. It has a maximum speed of 20x for DVD burning. That translates up to 27MB per second for really fast DVD copying. Double/Dual Layer discs let you store up to 8.5GB on a single DVD+R Double Layer or DVD-R Dual Layer disc, giving you plenty of room for more Video and Audio entertainment, Digital photo archives, and information Storage and the DRU-840A provides a faster speed of up to 12x burning or 16.2MB per second. DVD+R burning speed is a blazing 20X maximum, burning a full DVD in approximately 5 minutes.
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Written By msarr41956
Date Written Mar 31 2008
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I purchased this with the impression that all the software for making this unit fully functional was included. The Nero 7 software is for the burning function but the playback function in Nero Show time is only a trial version which will not function...
I bought this item to replace a little known brand DVD writer which stopped formatting DVD-RW, which I use for data storage. The Nero software included with the Sony drive seems to have many features, but not the one I needed first, a means to format...
