alexnoe
3rd May 2004, 21:54
First, the latest results with 8x media:
On the DVD-R parts, Taiyo Yuden and Mitsubishi 8x media was tested. The best results were achieved with, hold your seat...., the pretty cheap LG 4082B. The Asus drive was also working with both disc types, while all other writers b0rked with at least one of the discs.
For DVD+R, they tested CMC, Mitsubishi, Taiyo Yuden, Ritek and Philips 8x +R. Again, the LG drive worked on all discs. All other drives disliked at least one disc of them....the LG did not write all discs at 8x (Philips: 4x, Ritek: 6x), but the write quality was always good. The drive seems to know which discs can be recorded at 8x, and which ones can't.
Now news on DVD+RW: Philips has put DVD+MRW on ice, and rather wants to develop faster drives (while the current 8x ones don't work properly!) than doing something useful.
On the DVD-RW side, Instant Write 4.2 now supports 'DRT-DM', which is defect management for DVD-RWs. That means, if that Software (which is still packet writing software and might not cooperate with some windows installations!) works on your system, you can now use defect management on DVD-RWs on the Pioneer A07 series, but not on any DVD+RWs. The clou here is that Pioneer started the developement of DRT-DM long after the +Alliance, but their implementation is available earlier for users...
Also, something like defect management won't make Princo discs any more useable....it won't do magics.
On the down side on DVD-RW, we got that no test drive achieved a really good write quality at 4x on the 4x Verbatim -RW disc (while many drives showed very good results on Verbatim 4x +RW in the last test). But DVD+RW had the same problem when launching 4x media, so that will (hopefully!) be fixed with firmware updates, if the engineers are not too busy trying to make 12x, 16x and dvd+r9 work instead of fixing current bugs.
I still remember some owners of dvd+only drives saying that dvd+ will win, but with philips putting one of the most interesting, formerly exclusive dvd+ features on ice, well, i'm not sure how they are going to wipe out dvd- this way.... :devil:
On the DVD-R parts, Taiyo Yuden and Mitsubishi 8x media was tested. The best results were achieved with, hold your seat...., the pretty cheap LG 4082B. The Asus drive was also working with both disc types, while all other writers b0rked with at least one of the discs.
For DVD+R, they tested CMC, Mitsubishi, Taiyo Yuden, Ritek and Philips 8x +R. Again, the LG drive worked on all discs. All other drives disliked at least one disc of them....the LG did not write all discs at 8x (Philips: 4x, Ritek: 6x), but the write quality was always good. The drive seems to know which discs can be recorded at 8x, and which ones can't.
Now news on DVD+RW: Philips has put DVD+MRW on ice, and rather wants to develop faster drives (while the current 8x ones don't work properly!) than doing something useful.
On the DVD-RW side, Instant Write 4.2 now supports 'DRT-DM', which is defect management for DVD-RWs. That means, if that Software (which is still packet writing software and might not cooperate with some windows installations!) works on your system, you can now use defect management on DVD-RWs on the Pioneer A07 series, but not on any DVD+RWs. The clou here is that Pioneer started the developement of DRT-DM long after the +Alliance, but their implementation is available earlier for users...
Also, something like defect management won't make Princo discs any more useable....it won't do magics.
On the down side on DVD-RW, we got that no test drive achieved a really good write quality at 4x on the 4x Verbatim -RW disc (while many drives showed very good results on Verbatim 4x +RW in the last test). But DVD+RW had the same problem when launching 4x media, so that will (hopefully!) be fixed with firmware updates, if the engineers are not too busy trying to make 12x, 16x and dvd+r9 work instead of fixing current bugs.
I still remember some owners of dvd+only drives saying that dvd+ will win, but with philips putting one of the most interesting, formerly exclusive dvd+ features on ice, well, i'm not sure how they are going to wipe out dvd- this way.... :devil: