Plextor
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| Plextor | |
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| Type of Company | |
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| Founded | 1985 |
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| Industry | Computer hardware |
| Products | CD and DVD writers |
| Website | www.plextor.com |
The brand Plextor (プレクスター Purekusutā?) is best known for its CD and DVD writers. The brand name is used for all products manufactured by the Electronic Equipment Division and Printing Equipment Division of Shinano Kenshi. The brand was formerly known as TEXEL by which name it introduced the first CD-ROM optical disk drive in 1989. The brand is used for CD and DVD burners, CD/DVD media, network hard disks, portable hard disks, digital video recorder, floppy disk drives and USB flash memory products.
[edit] Products
Plextor are generally regarded as being one of the very highest quality producers of optical drives. This quality is reflected in their prices, which are some of the highest in the marketplace.
[edit] Threats to software volunteers
Plextor appears to be hostile to the open-source software (OSS) community, as they have conveyed threats of law suits according to software authors. This may not seem important to Windows users except that such actions reduces the chance of third party software support and it is OSS people that often communicate design defects back to the manufacturer.
[edit] External links
- (English) Plextor Worldwide
- (Japanese) Plextor Co., Ltd. (Japan)
- (English) Plextor, Inc. (United States)
- (English) Plextor Europe
- (English) Thread about Plextor's legal threats to software volunteers
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