The quality of the DVD-R disc written at 16x by BenQ DW1620

I’d like to finish this section of the review by testing the new BenQ at writing DVD-R discs at 16x speed. This is going to be our first test of such speed as no drive could burn 8x DVD-R discs at this speed, offering 12x at best. And until today no manufacturer has supplied DVD-R blanks rated for 16x speed with its products. But as I mentioned at the beginning of the review, the BenQ DW1620 comes with such a disc, so we can evaluate the quality of DVD-Rs burned at 16x.

The burning was performed without problems. Like with DVD+Rs, the CAV algorithm is used – there’s no P-CAV as yet. That’s why there’s a negligible time bonus over the 12x burning. To my regret, the quality of the disc isn’t perfect. WOPC helps here, reducing the level of PI errors and failures to the end of the disc, but it can’t remove them altogether. On the other hand, the disc was then read without troubles.

It’s hard to check out if this is the drive’s or the disc’s fault since 16x DVD-R media are a rarity in the market as yet. We’ll recheck this in the future, but now let’s see what we have with rewritable DVD formats.

The quality of the DVD+RW disc written at 2.4x by BenQ DW1620

The burn process was successful, and the quality of the resulting disc is high, with low levels of PI errors and failures. The results of the BenQ are among the best in this class of devices. Few drives can do as successfully with rewritable media. Of course, the subsequent reading of the disc poised no problems before the drive.