Pioneer DVR-108D - Crowning a new Champion
by Kristopher Kubicki on August 31, 2004 12:02 AM EST- Posted in
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Burn Tests DVD+R Media
We have a number of different brands of DVD+R media ranging in quality.CMC MAG F01
This is an Imation disc rated at 4x write speeds.
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Both the Pioneer and the Plextor drives burn it at 4X. You can tell the Plextor tries to burn at 8X before it is calibrated down to 4X at the first quarter of the disc.
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As you can tell from the mouseover, the Pioneer does an excellent job keeping errors to an absolute minimum, even if it does mean writing the disc slower than what it is rated; the Plextor, however, does not.
Prodisc 16x
This is a Prodisc DVD+R rated at 16x write speeds.
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The Pioneer didn't make it past 4x write speeds on this Prodisc media. Maybe a future firmware will help fix this.
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There were some errors toward the beginning of the disc, but not enough to render this media useless. The Pioneer and Plextor drives have done well in keeping errors down to a low number.
MCC 003
This is a Verbatim disc rated at 8x write speeds.
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Writing to this media was a bit shaky throughout, but executed cleanly.
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Reading the Pioneer burned disc in the Plextor shows that there was a slight glitch at the end of the write, but nothing too serious. The Plextor, on the other hand, had some trouble at the end of the burn.
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KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - link
Degrador, fixed, thanks.Kristopher
Degrador - Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - link
Bitsetting basically describes what type of disc it is (only matters for DVD+R(W) and DL discs). Having a drive able to let you set the bitsetting means you can write discs that seem to be DVD-ROM discs not writables, and so old dvd-players can handle them better.Another thing I noticed in the article, the image shows the Ritek R03 discs burnt at only 4X on the Pioneer, yet you say "Even at that ambitious burn ..." and "the Pioneer wins this bout both in speed and write quality". Wrong image link perhaps?
KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - link
saechaka: someone said a hacked 3500A firmware supports bitsetting. I think its a pretty moot issue nowadays but some people find it really important.Kristopher
saechaka - Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - link
what's the significance of this bitsetting? and will the 3500a be able to utilize that feature? thanksDegrador - Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - link
Under the features table, you have the drive listed as writing DVD-RAM at 2X. This drive actually doesn't support writing DVD-RAM, only reading.Perhaps another thing of note is that the retail version has better noise management / control than the OEM version.
Also, is there any chance of doing some benchmarks with the newly released 1.10 firmware?
Thanks
Budman - Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - link
Pioneer DVD burners Rule!!