[MEDIA-TEST] Over 20 DVD Media Discs Tested w/4 DVD Burners

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In the DVD+R category, the Digitex 8x, TDK 16x and Verbatim 16x have performed well (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/dvd-4burners.html). The RIDATA 16x can be put in here, too, but none of the four optical drives could burn it at 16x, and only one drive did the burning at 8x. This must be due to the drives' firmware, so it would be too hasty to reject this medium altogether. The discs of the DVD-R format have been in the focus of this review due to the arrival of blanks from TDK and Verbatim rated for 16x. Both these discs have performed well. We have no concerns as to their quality. We have no such concerns about the 8x blanks from Digitex, TDK and Verbatim, either. In the DVD+RW category, high-quality media are Imation 4x, Fujifilm 4x, L-PRO 2.4x, Sony 4x, Philips 4x, Verbatim 4x. Indeed, the rest of the participating discs aren't hopeless, either.

Link: xbitlabs (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/dvd-4burners.html)


Testing Participants :

Digitex DVD+R 8x
RIDATA DVD+R 16x
RIDATA DVD+R DL 2.4x
TDK DVD+R 16x
Verbatim DVD+R 16x
Digitex DVD-R 8x
TDK DVD-R 16x
TDK DVD-R 8x
Verbatim DVD-R 16x
Verbatim DVD-R 8x
Digitex DVD+RW 4x
Fujifilm DVD+RW 4x
Imation DVD+RW 4x
Philips DVD+RW 4x
Sony DVD+RW 4x
TDK DVD+RW 4x
Verbatim DVD+RW 4x
Digitex DVD-RW 4x
Fujifilm DVD-RW 2x
Imation DVD-RW 2x
Sony DVD-RW 2x
Verbatim DVD-RW 2x

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As we said at the beginning of this article, we wanted to solve a twofold problem in our tests. First, we wanted to check out the quality of a pile of DVD discs and, second, to see which optical drive was preferable as concerns quality burning. Have we succeeded? Not quite, because we couldn’t do in practice everything we had planned. Particularly, our reference drive Lite-On SOHW-1653S couldn’t read some media written by some of the drives. Here, we met the compatibility problem which could not be avoided. But still, a negative result may be sometimes as useful as a positive one. At least, you get a better understanding of problematic situations and ways to solve them. Compatibility issues have also risen up with the Plextor PX-712A which just couldn’t burn a number of discs in Nero Burning ROM. It’s highly possible that many such problems can be easily corrected by adjusting the software/hardware system the optical drive and the burning software constitute. We mean firmware updates, of course.

The results we have got in our tests must not be regarded as absolute truth. The quality of the same discs written in other drives may differ from what we’ve seen in our tests. It is also possible that you may encounter the above-mentioned incompatibility and your drive with its current firmware just will not burn a certain blank.