Pioneer DVD burners Rule!!

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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


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what's the significance of this bitsetting? and will the 3500a be able to utilize that feature? thanks

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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

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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?

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Degrador, fixed, thanks.

Kristopher

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Can't wait to see the benq tested (who also has that bitsetting thing onboard)

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Can't wait to see how the ND-3500A compares. If you guys want to test it, it's readily available at Newegg.

And I'm not sure if you know, but it burns CD-R at 48x versus 32x for the Pioneer 108.

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How can you say this drive is the best you've tested when you haven't even burned any discs at 16x?

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Good review, but unless I'm looking at it wrong, the "Read Tests - Printed Media" page shows this to be a bit slower than it's counter parts.

Also the overimage change doesn't work in FoxFire.

LK

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