THE DOWNLOAD ADDRESS…
Improvements:
- Improved writing quality on some DVD-R media.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a instability problem when reading a CD disc.
Well. Looking forward to some (more or less) nice scans.
Has anyone upgraded yet? Found another store in Portugal that is selling this drive for 135€… A lot of money but if it’s worth it… Does anyone know a good online store that sels to Portugal ?(most of them don’t… 
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loooooooooooooool i guess i know that for the tests made by people here, but i already own a 48x24x and the black front would look so nice on my case…
I haven’t forgot the A09 though because i own a A06 and Pionner seems to get very good reseults with their burners. I can tell you that i have mine for 14 moths and i haven’t had any coster yet. Also every movie I backup it plays fine on every reader that i’ve tried… It is also true that i only use yellow traxdata that i believe that are grade A riteck 4x media… The only problem is that it takes 14 - 15 minutes just to burn the dvd… Ripping pressed movies even with latest hacked firmaware it takes an eternity (locked at 2x). So i need an alternative!!!
Strange , that You don’t see any firmware-downloads for 716 on PlextorEurope’s homepages ?!?!?!
And according to PlextorAmerica FirmWareVersion 1.02 is posted: December 13, 2004 …
There’s neither a 1.03 version on the asian/chinese/japanese pages …
Anyway I’m not going to get a 716 as long as the Plextor-reputation is suffering ; probably I’ll save my money for a Blu-Ray ! 
I’ve tested 1.03 with MXL-RG02 (Maxell DVD-R 1-4x). With 1.02, RG02 is very unstable. When auto-strategy is turned on, unreadable gap is made around WOPC area. DW1620 cannot read RG02 burned by 716A with AS. Plextools PI/PO scan is sometimes aborted by “Error: Adress is out of range (code 052100)” near 400MB WOPC area.
It seems that 716A@1.03 does not have such a problem. PI error is slightly decreased by the effect of AS.
Here is 716A@1.03, RG02@4x, self-scan.
Can you do the test using that media but on another burner. I’m curious to see if 716 is a bad reader has some have reported. That looks like a nice graph…
I’m now scanning with PX-712A 
PX-712A shows better graph than PX-716A. This is DW1620 scan (PX716@1.03, RG02@4x, AS-ON).
just updated the f/w and burned an IMATION 8x DVD+R ( ricohjpnr02) at 12x
AS: off / PR:ON
from the cdspeed curve, the end part has shown speed drop.
Well that’s what i suspected. 716 isn’t teh best burner and that drop of speed at the 4.2 gb still remains… At least it’s later but it’s still there… I guess it will not the at 3rd time that plextor got it right…
1.03 can be downladed at Plextor Europe
http://www.plextor.be/technicalservices/downloads/firmw_716A.asp?choice=DVD-Recorders
That’s the transfer rate (read test) not the write test.
@raygay, do you have a media that can be burn @16x (TY T02 or MCC004) and would you mind doing a Nero CD Speed Create data disk and post the scans?
You’re absolutely right… I was so ancious to see results that I missread the information on it… But still it’s linear as it should…
Thanks Koba (although I don’t have 716a 
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There’s also a BIN file and the flasher in the link, is that mean now plextor fw is hackable? 
It’s beem hackable for a while 
The LG GSA4163B is at 12x much more faster and has a better write quality.
Buy LG 
Plextor 712A with P-CAV is faster than GSA4163B @12x with Z-CAV.
Write quality? did you see 712a scans in my sig?
Yeah Plex firmware is hackable. The 704 and 708-2 OEM only drives are.
You can Hack the 708 firm to use it on 704 and 712 to use on 708-2.
I think 708-2 is sold in europe as External Version which can write 8X on DVD-R and +R