BenQ DW1620: An Elegant, Robust DVDR Surprise
by Kristopher Kubicki on September 29, 2004 10:32 AM EST- Posted in
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Burn Tests DVD+R Media (cont'd)
MCC 004
This is a Verbatim disc rated at 16X write speeds. Below you can see our first attempts to burn this disc with the B7H9 firmware shipped with the drive.
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We were really disappointed to see this high end drive fail on good media. We immediately contacted BenQ and received the new firmware that was used in this review. You can see the night and day difference between the two burns. We ran some quick burns with the Pioneer DVR-108D for comparison as well.
Click to enlarge the BenQ DW1620 image.
Hold your mouse over for the Pioneer DVR-108D image.
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Hold your mouse over for the Pioneer DVR-108D image.
Still not very pretty, but it burns all the way through without choking.
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MCC 004 media clearly works great on this burner. It certainly doesn't burn at a clean constant rate, but we can't argue with the quantitative numbers.
Sony D11
Here are some Sony discs, again rated at 16X.
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Hold your mouse over for the Pioneer DVR-108D image.
Click to enlarge the BenQ DW1620 image.
Hold your mouse over for the Pioneer DVR-108D image.
Here, we see similar patterns to what we saw on the MCC media.
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Under Plextools, this media behaves very similarly to the MCC 003 discs, but burns fine at 16X. There still is no cause for alarm as to the write quality of these discs.
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Compddd - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - link
Is the Pioneer DVR-A08XL still the best one though?lennylim - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - link
Firmware link is incorrect, although it doesn't take much to figure out what it should be.Fionavar - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - link
Did you say weeks on the round-up? I hope it is much sooner than that as I need a new DVD player and at the moment I am seriously considering the NEC ND-3500 ... the specs and the fact that it comes with the full Nero 6 package is a seeller - of course your round-up might tell me otherwise ...Resh - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - link
Why did you guys put this out before the round-up? Seems to indicate you think this one is better than the rest, which makes one wonder about the point of the round-up.Anyway, get the damn thing out so I can buy one already. :)
Basse - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - link
...and some are missing!Looking forward to reading the roundup :-)
Basse - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - link
Check the mouseover images, they seem a tad large.UlricT - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - link
uuhhh... what is this here?Page 3:
"...Unfortunately, the drive lacks DVD-RAM and Mount Rainer support. The drive claims slightly quicker than average access times as well.
Make a special note of some of the neater capabilities of this drive, including DVD-RAM support,..."