Verbatim DVD-R 16x

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We’ve come at last to the second DVD-R 16x disc which had become one of the reasons for our writing this review. The Verbatim trademark must be maintained high, so let’s see what we have this time around. The blank recorded in the Plextor PX-712A is clearly bad, having an unacceptably high number of both types of errors. The limit of PI failures is also exceeded on the disc recorded by the NEC ND-3520A. This time, however, it’s not too bad, if you examine the scan graph: the PI failure rate is above 4 at the beginning of the diagram only and is no more than 2 afterwards. The rest of the recorded blanks are even better than that, having acceptable PI error and failure rates. So, the new Verbatim DVD-R 16x disc is going to serve well to users of DVD-recorders.

The LG GSA-4163B and the Pioneer DVR-109 produced discs of higher quality than the other two optical drives.