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Sony DRX-800UL External DVD Burner Review (page 11)

Category: Storage

by Andrey Kuznetcov

[ 09/15/2005 | 01:20 PM ]

TDK DVD+R 16x

The burning quality with a 16x TDK DVD+R disc also proved very nice. Both parameters in question stayed within the acceptable boundaries. I would like to specifically stress that the PI Failures didn’t exceed 2, which is a very rare result. The number of PI Errors is also extremely low, and only in one single spot we can observe a certain upsurge.

Verbatim DVD+R 16x

In case of a DVD+R disc from Verbatim, we witness a tiny cloud against the blue skies of success. Despite the overall excellent burning quality, the number of PI Failures exceeded the allowed maximum in one spot, which slightly spoilt the good impression, I should say. Although, I would prefer to consider it just bad luck in our particular case.

Digitex DVD-R 8x

The burning quality was quite acceptable in this case. Both considered parameters are within the limits defined by the ECMA. The important thing is that the maximum number of PI Failures doesn’t exceed 2.

TDK DVD-R 8x ScratchProof

The DVD-R scan from TDK shows very good burning quality all over the working surface. Unfortunately, despite the highly positive PI Error score, the number of PI Failures exceeds the allowed limits.