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Battle of the Burners!!!


DVD Media Testing & the Drives





As you will probably have noticed our recent DVD media tests have been carried out on a wider variety of DVD writers.

We currently use 12 different High speed D/L DVD burners to test my media and intend to try out the media in most if not all of these drives to see how it performs giving a good indication as to the compatibility of the media to each particular drive.
We use the drives latest official firmware and although I personally use and approve of the unofficial firmwares, for the purpose of my tests I avoid them wherever possible. Below is the selection of drives I currently use. Click on the thumbnail image of each drive for a detailed description .
The column on the right lists all the media that has been tested to date and included links to some of my early tests that were carried out before started using all these drives.

The drives we are using in this test are the most common ones generally in use
If you are not sure about your drive try and buy a sample disc pack from one of the online retailers or ask your local shop if they will sell individual samples just to be sure.

All the test results in this review are entered into my newly developed Media Quality Spreadsheet with the totals analysed together with the current market price of the media and the value for money is calculated.
My algorithms are incorporated into the testing software DVDInfoPro which is now integrated with LightningUK's Imgburn burning data to produce the newly developed burn speed graph of DVDInfoPro.

Recording are made on each of the drives with Imgburn ISO burn mode and then tested with DVDInfoPro testing software.
These new features have been incorporated in the latest releases of the software which can be downloaded from HERE




If you click on the image of the relevant drive below the drive's details will come up in a popup window.
TESTLAB DRIVES







DW1620


GSA-4166B


ND-3540A


ND-4551A


PBDV16LSP1


PBDV1640P



ND-6750


SPD2400LI


PX-716A











  • Older reviews were carried out with some of the following drives


DVR-110D


DVR-109


DVR-108


GSA-4163B


16XDVD9A2


ND-3500AG

DVR-111D




DVR-107D











Flash's Reviews

BATTLE of the BURNERS
DVD Media Testing

  • Plextor YUDEN000-T03 DVD+R
  • Pioneer DVR-108
  • NEC ND-4551 Labelflash™
  • RiDisc ritekf1 Silver-White Print.
  • DataWrite Yellow v Grey 16x -R
  • Titanium TTH02 16x -R
  • Titanium-Xtreme D/L cmcmagd01
  • Datasafe Premium v Optima Blue
  • Datawrite Titanium 16x DVD+R
  • Smiley v Moviestyle 16x DVD-R
  • Titanium v RiDisc 16x +R
  • RiVision v Titanium HubPr.16x-R
  • RiDisc 16x Speed DVD-R
  • Tuffdisc 8x DVD-RDVD-R
  • Datasafe Pro Hub Print. TYG02
  • Verbatim 16x -R MCC03RG20
  • CMC Silver TTH02 16x DVD-R
  • Datawrite Optima Blue 8x -R
  • Titanium Hub Print.MCC03RG20
  • Ritek 16x Silver -R RITEKF1
  • RiDisc Xtreme 8x speed DVD-R
  • Datawrite Transprint mcco2RG20
  • Ritek 16x DVD+R RITEKR04
  • Disqworld.:- Datawrite 8x Yellow
  • CMCMAG AM3 16X Speed -R
  • Titanium 8X-R CMCMAG AE1
  • Datasafe 8X DVD+R MCC003
  • DataWrite HubPrint. fujifilm03
  • DisQworld :- Datawrite 8x Print.
  • Datawrite Yellow 8x -R TTG02
  • Bulkpaq H-Print.4x prodiscs04
  • Verbatim D/L Media MKM001
  • Bulkpaq 4x Print. +R MCC 002
  • DisQworld :- Bulkpaq 8x Print.
  • Datawrite Classic 8x +R mcc003
  • Datawrite Print.8x cmcmagae1
  • Ridisc Silver Printable Surface -R
  • PRODISCR04 16X DVD+R
  • Ritek Change Their Dye
  • DisQworld :- DataWrite "Fuji" 8x
  • Datasafe & RiDisc D/L ritekd01
  • Popular 8x Speed DVD-R Media
  • Datasafe richjpn01 4X at 8x
  • PRODISC R04 +R Burnt at 12x
  • Mini 8cm DVD-R PRODISCS03
  • 16X Burning
  • CDR Media
  • Bulkpaq PRODISCR03 8x +R
  • DATASAFE RITEKG05 8X
  • Genuine TYG02 12x speed
  • Datawrite Grey 8X FUJIFILM03
  • Ridisc DVD-Ram
  • Datawrite Grey 8x DVD-R
  • Datawrite Yellows v RITEKG04
  • 8x DVD-R on the Pioneer 107
  • Datawrite Reds v3
  • What Happened to Ritek Quality?
  • Bulkpaq Printable 4x DVD-R
  • 01ne 4x DVD-R Review
  • Datawrite Red and Yellow 4x
  • Bulkpaq 4x DVD-R
  • Datawrite Princo Budget 4x -R
  • Nanya DVD-R Media
  • Datasafe White DVD-R
  • Datasafe Classic 2x or Not?
  • eProformance 4.7gb DVD-R
  • Bulkpaq 40x CD-R Media




  • Added:  January 22nd 2006
    Reviewer:  Flash
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