Comments on: Plextor exits CD DVD markets

By: steve clendenon

steve clendenon — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:15:24 +0000

I am so sorry to see Plextor byte the dust like many other quality computer products over the last 25 years witnessed by myself. I have a few 760as (still run and burn DVD’s not coasters) 716AL as well as a few earlier units. Thats a brag not a complaint. I was really looking forward to a BlueRay when they became affordable. I even purchased an LG BlueRay burner HD reader as a stop gap waiting… Tonight I googled for info to see if they are now affordable and to read this. I am bummed. I also cannot believe it took so long for the news to reach me. But I have quality systems and have not needed to do any upgrading of DVD burners. Chassis and Motherboards are SuperMicro. If I want faster system I remove the mother, cpu, ram and graphic sell it on and purchase current high quality kit. Of course the drives and DVD (Plextors) stay with the chassis and don’t need updating. Burning DVD’s? I have 5 Chest that store 360 DVD’s 18 high quality DVD/CD zipped books. These books are on the book case when cases are full and move the older items to a new storage chest. Now what am I going to recommend to new users for DVD burners? I am truely bummed out, but happy for the moment that I have what I need except for a Plextor BlueRay burner. I just notice over the last few years that Plextor media has dried up and then could not find any burners. Last burner I purchased was at Frys in Concord Ca when visiting my birth place as I have live in England the last 26 years. Bummer….

By: Plextor DVD burners: made by LiteOn » WesleyTech.com -> HD DVD, Blu-ray, CD info and more

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:06:24 +0000

[...] After the recent news of Plextor scaling down optical disk drive manufacturing, we are now reading reports that LiteOn has received DVD burner orders from Plextor. This is exactly what I had speculated earlier, that Plextor will begin selling drives that are rebranded or rebadged from another manufacturer. Thanks to CDRLabs.com for posting this news also. [...]

By: Plextor USA still in the CD DVD game » WesleyTech.com -> HD DVD, Blu-ray, CD info and more

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:17 +0000

[...] A couple of days ago we wrote about a Japanese news report that detailed that the Plextor brand is exiting the CD DVD consumer markets. Afterwards, another Japanese newspaper reported a similar story, but this time it was stated that the ODD (Optical Disk Drive) business would only be downsized. Here is a quote from an official Plextor LLC press release. [...]

By: Not so fast Plextor » WesleyTech.com -> HD DVD, Blu-ray, CD info and more

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:48:23 +0000

[...] The article states that Plextor will continue to develop new products, but they will heavily downsize their ODD (Optical Disk Drive) business. This news is very similar to the previous news report that we wrote about, stating that the Plextor ODD business unit will be reduced to 10% of what it once had been. With such a reduction in their ODD business, I have to wonder if Plextor will continue to develop their own, innovative products or simply rebadge drives from other manufacturers? Rebadging or rebranding other manufacturers drives is the most likely scenario. More discussion can be found over at CDFreaks, where Koba is reporting that the following Plextor drives are now out of production: [...]

By: Wesley Novack

Wesley Novack — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:26:57 +0000

Thanks DrageMester.

By: DrageMester

DrageMester — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:16:20 +0000

The following post at CDFreaks says that Plextor will not exit the ODD market but just downsize their ODD business:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showpost.php?p=1673171&postcount=36

That post links to an article in Japanese:

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2007/0122/plextor.htm

Disclaimer: I can’t speak for the accuracy of this news.

By: Alberto García

Alberto García — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:33:21 +0000

Good bad expensive

Like always…

By: WesleyTech.com » HD DVD piracy article hits Digg

WesleyTech.com » HD DVD piracy article hits Digg — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:32:33 +0000

[...] As of this posting, my HD DVD piracy article has received a massive 1,632 Diggs, 184 comments on the Digg submission and over 70 responses on the article page itself. My Google AdSense panel reports that I received 27,198 page impressions over the last 3 days, but some of that is no doubt coming from my Plextor exits CD DVD markets article. Looking at these results, I would say that this was a pretty successful article. [...]

By: Wesley Novack

Wesley Novack — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:50:29 +0000

A sad day for Plextor fan(atics) indeed.

I was never a big Plextor fan personally, but I do commend them on their innovations and their contributions towards the progression of optical storage technology. It is sad to see such an innovator exit the ODD field.

By: Oracle

Oracle — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:42:00 +0000

Oh~ This news really shocks me a lot!

I am a Plextor fan and have used its dirvers in SCSI and IDE interfaces from 2000. Plextor drivers are excellent in quality, compatibility, and support to any kind of discs. But I never think the day that Plextor exits because of costdown comes soonly. This impact makes me to collect more Plextor.

Say Goodbye to you, my dear Plextor.