Overview I have just received samples of these discs, they both have the same mid and appear to be of identical quality so I will do a combined review
These discs are produced by one of the top manufacturers CMC, using only the top grade dye formula. Looking at the burn side of these discs I can see the quality as I expected.
Currently Dual Layer media is in it's infancy and at the moment [Oct 20] D/L Burners and Media have only been on the market for about 12 months. So make sure you go to your drive manufacturers website and download the latest firmware to take advantage of this new format.
Under The MicroscopeThe drives we are using in this test are the most common ones most of you are using.
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 can sell them individually just to be sure. Currently DVD+R media is all that is readily available and all the DVD+R D/L burners burn the video as DVD-ROM book format to enable better player compatibility, this is fixed in the drives firmware and cannot be changed.
DVD-R is very slow to hit the streets and I have been fortunate to receive only a few beta test samples which never got into production.
A recording has been made on each of the drives with Nero C D/DVD Speed ISO burn mode and then tested with
DVDInfoPro testing software.