[linux-audio-user] The fall of Plextor, was Re: "DVD-A"paranoia?

[Rob]

On Wed February 1 2006 14:17, Alberto Botti wrote:
> They include PlexTools Professional
> (http://www.plextools.com/info/info.asp) with every retail
> drive, and they sell an enhanced version called Plextools
> Professional XL. All of their software requires Microsoft
> Windows.

From the forum thread someone linked to earlier, judging by the 
wording of the letter received by the developer, it might 
actually be the name they were really objecting to: "pxtools" 
seems like it'd be different enough to me, but then, Lindows had 
to change their name based on "-dows", so maybe just taking out 
the "le" from PlexTools wasn't enough.

Regardless, it was a lousy thing to do.

> > This is one of the worst things I've seen a vendor try to
> > pull.  I'm never buying another Plextor.
>
> Me too. And it doesn't help that my PX-716A likes to make
> coasters out of almost half the perfectly good CDs I put in
> it...

Plextors were the best until 2 or 3 years ago, and then something 
happened.  Now the name means nothing.... just another brand of 
drives, maybe made by Plextor, maybe rebadged.

I try to buy LiteOn drives nowadays, especially for DVD 
burners... they may be the closest thing to "generic" that you 
can get (I discovered them by buying some rebadged drive by 
Yamaha or Memorex and finding it was a LiteOn), but I've never 
made a single coaster with one.  Granted I've never tried to do 
with LiteOn drives the kinds of things pxtools is supposed to 
let you do with Plextor drives.

Rob