The Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Digital DVDXRW1248-069 was the clear winner out of all of the DVD burners we tested in this roundup. It had the performance, the features, and the value for money to easily stand out.
While not the fastest burner in all formats, the Mitsubishi was right up there overall in our performance burning testing. On the flipside, this drive was easily the fastest at getting data back off the discs and onto the system by a wide margin.
Even though we reviewed a retail bundle from Mitsubishi the drive was able to hold its own price-wise against the other OEM bundles submitted for review. As well as the drive and cables, this retail kit also comes with a blank DVD-R and a comprehensive software bundle, including the ubiquitous Ahead Nero burning software, InCD 4, Cyberlink PowerDVD 5, Sonic MyDVD and Sonic DLA.
All up though, this drive offers plenty of multiformat support, the speed you need to burn, a good feature set and an extremely palatable price. We’ve no hesitation in awarding the Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Digital DVDXRW1248-069 the Labs Winner award.