Pioneer DVR-A06
Pioneer's software bundle is of quite a high quality, including some immediately recognisable titles such as Nero Burning ROM. Admittedly it is Nero Express, which is a "lighter" version of the full product, however it still offers plenty of features and a simplified user interface.Each time the Nero Express is launched the user is presented with a front end where the task to be performed is selected from a simple list of options such as Data disk or Music disk. In some cases there are additional popup windows that spawn off these options -- for example the Music disk option has four sub options, Audio CD, Mixed Audio and Data CD, MP3 Disc and WMA disc.
Other shipped software included Ulead's VideoStudio 7SE and DVD MovieFactory 2 SE for authoring your own DVD movies as well as DVD player and DVD PictureShow 2 SE, also from Ulead. A second CD shipped with the unit with DVD WorkShop AC-3 SE along with a tutorial for the software and a tutorial for VideoStudio. Although they are only 30-day trial version the CD also contains MediaStudio Pro 7, PhotoImpact8 and Cool 3D 3.5.
The Pioneer drive can write to almost all CD and DVD media excluding DVD-RAM. It is interesting to note that while the Pioneer is only rated at 16x for CD-R creation it was just as quick as the 24x units in this test. DVD -/+ R creation was the quickest of any of the units tested but inexplicably the DVD-RW write time was around twice as slow as other units with similar write specifications. Perplexingly, the software confirmed that the Pioneer was writing at it maximum 2x speed. DVD+RW creation was also slightly slower than similar drives but performance difference was certainly not as significant. The Pioneer also had a pretty healthy read performance for CD ROM media.
Pioneer DVR-A06
Company: Pioneer Electronics
Price: AU$399
Phone: 1800 060 852
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