What is the BEST DVD Writer?

[Tharindu DR]

Mage yaaluwek SONY aragena Awl kiyala Apahu gihin dunna.
Hodama wade akadigata DVD34 Writekarala balana1. Awl nam Read karanne na.....

 

[Halloween]

Benq is good machan..

 

[nuwa1]

Mage yaaluwek SONY aragena Awl kiyala Apahu gihin dunna.
Hodama wade akadigata DVD34 Writekarala balana1. Awl nam Read karanne na.....

EKE DIGATA DVD'S 34K WRITE KARALA BALANNE EI? AVUL NAM READ KARANNE NE KIYANA EKE THERUMA MOKAKDA MACHO??? EETA PASSE DRIVE EKEN WEDAK NE KIYANA EKADA?

 

[SAAJAHAN]

ASUS

 

[Anusha]

sony is good but its very sensitive, so cant hard use

What do you mean "sensitive"? There have been awesome models in the past. Not sure about the latest models though.

 

[Anusha]

Mage yaaluwek SONY aragena Awl kiyala Apahu gihin dunna.
Hodama wade akadigata DVD34 Writekarala balana1. Awl nam Read karanne na.....

You can't blame the burner if you used bad discs. Some burners "like" some DVD makes; some don't. You have to experiment a little and once you find that a specific brand works great on that burner, stick to those DVDs.

* Remember one thing. DVD Burner "learns" how to burn as you burn more and more discs. Some burners will take 5 burns to get to the optimum quality. Some might take more or less. This feature could be disabled by default. Some brands have a utility to optimize the burner. (Eg: Benq's QSuite) However, sometimes the properly "learned" burn strategy might give lower quality burns than the "write strategies included in the firmware for a specific disc. You have to experiment this too.

* Also note that sometimes the self-learning strategies can get screwed up, if one disc was in bad shape. It might make the burner *think* that it needs to alter the strategy, which is not the case.

* You can use Nero CD/DVD Speed to test the quality of a burn. The things to watch out for are,

In DVD quality tests, the testing drive reports two types of errors: PI (Parity Inner) errors (PIE) and PI failures (PIF).

In practice, a pressed or recorded DVD will always have some PI errors and PI failures. PI errors are easily corrected by the drive's error correcting decoder.

PI failures are the next level of errors. While PI failures are corrected by the second and last stage of the error correcting decoder, they are a more dangerous kind of errors because they can overwhelm the error correcting decoder if they occur in large enough numbers. A good-quality DVD should not contain PI errors above 280 or PI failures above 4.

Beyond PI failures, there are PO (Parity Outer) failures that are uncorrectable and make a disc unreadable.

Further do a DVD Benchmark test. It should give a fluctuationless read curve like this:

(This graph was obtained on my Sony DRU-810A or reverted Benq DW1640 with Verbatim DVD+R 8X DVD burned at 8X)

If the read curve is not like this,
1. Either you used crappy media. (Stay away from those Imation, TDK and other "junk" named crap! )
2. If you used good media with media codes like MCC003, MCC004 (that's Mitsubishi Chemical and Verbatim - they are both the same company anyway), then either,
(i) your DVDRW doesn't like them. Probably a firmware upgrade will fix it, if that issue has been address by the firmware release. (Remember, do not try to fix what ain't already broken...although I would )
(ii) your DVD burner is crap...To confirm it, buy some very good DVDRs and burn few test DVDs.. Yes, it is money, but you have to find the culprit somehow.

 

[nuwa1]

You can't blame the burner if you used bad discs. Some burners "like" some DVD makes; some don't. You have to experiment a little and once you find that a specific brand works great on that burner, stick to those DVDs.

* Remember one thing. DVD Burner "learns" how to burn as you burn more and more discs. Some burners will take 5 burns to get to the optimum quality. Some might take more or less. This feature could be disabled by default. Some brands have a utility to optimize the burner. (Eg: Benq's QSuite) However, sometimes the properly "learned" burn strategy might give lower quality burns than the "write strategies included in the firmware for a specific disc. You have to experiment this too.

* Also note that sometimes the self-learning strategies can get screwed up, if one disc was in bad shape. It might make the burner *think* that it needs to alter the strategy, which is not the case.

* You can use Nero CD/DVD Speed to test the quality of a burn. The things to watch out for are,

Further do a DVD Benchmark test. It should give a fluctuationless read curve like this:

(This graph was obtained on my Sony DRU-810A or reverted Benq DW1640 with Verbatim DVD+R 8X DVD burned at 8X)

If the read curve is not like this,
1. Either you used crappy media. (Stay away from those Imation, TDK and other "junk" named crap! )
2. If you used good media with media codes like MCC003, MCC004 (that's Mitsubishi Chemical and Verbatim - they are both the same company anyway), then either,
(i) your DVDRW doesn't like them. Probably a firmware upgrade will fix it, if that issue has been address by the firmware release. (Remember, do not try to fix what ain't already broken...although I would )
(ii) your DVD burner is crap...To confirm it, buy some very good DVDRs and burn few test DVDs.. Yes, it is money, but you have to find the culprit somehow.

Nice work bro

 

[chanakacm]

Assus...........
Sony........

 

[blackroses]

recommand ASUS

 

[Anusha]

Nice work bro

This is the list of DVD MediaIDs, the burner has learnt so far. (I have cleared the list many times )

 

[kepu]

Benq I think

 

[aruna47]

HP,SONY,ASUS

I'm Using HP

 

[Anusha]

Benq I think

Benq don't seem to make any DVD Burners anymore. They acquired or started a joint venture with Liteon and now Liteon makes drives that come out as Benq. So Benq = Liteon.

 

[Twincal]

I have ASUS

 

[nuwa1]

seems to be lots like Asus

 

[antoniodilen]

Ya thats true i too have an asus
its sira reads most of the scratched cd's which sony drives dont read
so i guess you better get a asus

 

[Anusha]

Ya thats true i too have an asus
its sira reads most of the scratched cd's which sony drives dont read
so i guess you better get a asus

My Sony reads everything

 

[samiram]

Imation....
my imation writer is noticeably faster..
than other writers like sony, pioneer...

 

[Anusha]

Imation....
my imation writer is noticeably faster..
than other writers like sony, pioneer...

Faster? :S
Imation? LOL

 

[samiram]

Faster? :S
Imation? LOL

yup..
test it..
if you can..
i tested with a sony...