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Plextor closes it's doors to CD and DVD products

Sad to see Plextor bowing out of the CD and DVD market :(

It was a high quality product at slightly higher price than mass market drives but worth every penny. I have been a very satisfied Plextor customer since 1999 when I first bought the 12/10/32A, still in service. My last was the Plextor External DVD burner 755UF bought just a couple of months ago.

Plextor will be greatly missed not just by myself but many audiophiles who really appreciated what it had to offer in terms of quality, reliability and performance.
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dnewhous
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This panick inducing thread caused me to look for another high end brand and I found "LaCie," which appears to be even more expensive than Plextor. Anyone tried them?

And does anyone know of a BD-ROM drive on the market? Not a triple burner or a burner of any sort whatsover, I want a ROM drive.
photon46
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We've used numerous LaCie burners, hard drives, and monitors at work for years. We're an all Mac environment and LaCie provides good support for Mac, which isn't the case for many Plextor products. I've had very good results burning CDr's with the Lacie Porsche design model using both Itunes and Toast, but I never A/B'd the results against a Plextor.
cytocycle
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The advantage of buying a plextor is you can use Pextor Professional Tools to rip FLAC lossless and it is calibrated for the drive similar to Exact Copy without all the hassel of initial configuration. This is why I choose to spend more for the plextor drives.
metralla
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Should Pextor Professional Tools come with my Plextor drive? I can't seem to find it. Can you remember if your drive came with 2 CDs? I just have the one and it does not seem to have Pextor Professional Tools.

Regards,
cytocycle
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on the older drives you receive the Plextor Tools Professional LE version which can still do it.. some came with the Professional XL versions which have more features but they $$$.

http://www.plextools.com/download/download.asp

There is a new LE version that works on Vista also.
The interface is really simple since it lacks features, But that makes it easy.
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