The Benq 1640 is the same hardware as the Plextor 740A. Benq seems to be on a roll lately, as Sony is using a Benq for the 810 drive. Sony has been using LiteOn to make their drives for some years now. The drive did well in testing, although it favored the "+" over the "-" format discs in terms of speed and quality.
As one of the most highly anticipated drives this year, the BenQ DW1640 has a lot of hype and high expectations surrounding it. On the whole, I think the drive was deserving of the hype and these expectations. This drive truly stands out amongst its competition, thanks to its impressive performance and innovative features.
In many ways, the DW1640 is a lot like BenQ's previous DVD writer, the DW1620. Aside from the DW1640's faster DVD±RW, DVD±R DL and CD-R/RW reading and writing speeds, the specs of the two drives appear to be very similar. Looking a little closer though, you see that the DW1640 is, in many ways more mature than the DW1620. For starters, when both drives burn a disc at 16x, the DW1640 is almost always faster than its predecessor. Also, BenQ's new drive is able to burn a much larger variety of media with useable results then any other drive I've ever seen.
Looking specifically at media quality, I think it is a safe bet to say the DW1640 is following in the line of BenQ products that seem to favour the DVD+R format. Whether the media was DVD+R, DVD+RW or DVD+R DL, the discs from the DVD+RW Alliance always held even just a slightly upper hand when it came to overall scores. Nevertheless, looking at individual results show that this drive is completely capable of burning DVD-R media with good quality.
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