Customer Reviews

PIONEER DVR-S706 External 8x DVD & CD Writer - USB 2.0 / Firewire

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I have been looking for a quality 8x writer, and then has been the best I have seen. I work with a local editing company in Indiana, and I needed a personal burner and this one is top notch. In a matter of 5 minutes it was hooked up, and I had burnt my first home movie in 15-20 minutes. I was shocked at how quick and easy this product was. I use my PC firewire port, with a combonation or 8x and 4x DVD-r media and I am very happy with my purhcase. I reccomend it too all.

There were several problems with the product I received:

1. no power cord. I had a spare, so I used my own. I connected the drive to a USB port, used the DVD drive to install the software and everything seemed fine. Until...

2. the drive wouldn't recognize any DVDs. I tried two Verbatim DVD+R discs and neither was recognized. So, I got a commercial video DVD and a DVD-R produced by a friend. Nothing.

3. I called the Amazon partner dealer who sold me the drive. They said that they have had a lot of returns on this piece. Mostly due to the missing power cord, but the rep didn't know whether anyone else had gotten a DVD drive that wouldn't even recognize DVDs.

They're sending a UPS return label and I'm returning it.

The price was right at the time unfortuntly bought it before realizing it that it came in S709 version at 16x for few dollars more.. Drive is great no real issues so far drive lives up to expectation at burning at 8x at USB 2.0 Win XP. eager to test it in my laptop.

I could not get this DVD writer to work. You need a USB 2.0 standard and I do not have one on my older computer. I'm not sure if that requirement was in the fine print at the time of purchase. Also I could not get the firewire connection to work.

Tech support was fair at best.