Rechecking your burns

[geno888]

Too bad Chewy already showed that a good reader can't give informations regarding a media quality.

Only coupling the scan with the transfer rate test we can obtain informations on a media.

And Chewy made me want to add also a LG burner to my drives

[UncasMS]

true, but quality means being able to playback the media wihtout any problems now and in years to come

we'll see about that ^_~

[Chewy]

UNcasMS
As somebody named Dee just said, paraphrased:

The nec 3500 still reigns supreme for dvd-r burns

, but if it's a good reader
a transfer test is meaningless, no matter what Dee says!

but then as LT says

TECHNOLIGICAL OVERKILL



with all due respect

[geno888]

...but if it's a good reader
a transfer test is meaningless...

I agree: a very good reader will be able to read also a damaged disc.

A transfer rate test will be reliable only if reader is very picky about media. A smooth curve with a really picky reader is surely sign of a good burn.

[Chewy]

Damn these kids pick up fast!
long ago and far away. like my old physics professor said, "if you haven't
started on you new contribution to the field by 21, you probably never will"

[jmet]

Well, I was alittle wrong on my output score but real close on the date. I burned that DVD almost 3 years ago. Here is the scan:

[Chewy]

thats before they set up the plant in tawain, an awful good burn for that old,
what did you burn it on?

[jmet]

I know for a fact I burning it at 4X, cause that was the top speed for my Sony DRU-510A.

Think that was 1 of my first burns ever as I didn't know what I was doing cause I used "Still Pictures" for the menu. It looks like dog poo!

[Chewy]

Half mine were good like yours. the other half crap!
Who branded it?

[geno888]

Today I was busy

I have only a scan to post here

I have a lot of these discs (branded Memorex), and all still play good

[NightTran]

I have a question, in my nero speed:
If I have 1 PI error it will say 98, 2 = 95, 3 is 93 and 4 is 90. Is it some thing my nero is not set up the same or is it just from my burner is not nec?

Thanks Geno888

[geno888]

CD-DVD Speed calculate Quality Score differently according on burner used to scan, because different burners use different methods to do scans

Pickyest are liteon

[NightTran]

one more question: if I buy a NEC, and use my old dvd to check on it, is the quality will base on the lighton or the NEC?

Thanks Chewy

[Chewy]

@geno actually the liteon fanboys critisize the benq's for being too picky
I like picky

@nighttran liteons have a smaller scan range, need to be run at 4x on scan
the quality score adjusts for that

the same disk scanned in 2 different scanners(good ones) will have similar quality scores

[FrankC]

I have been reading this tread with great interest. When I have used Nero DVD Speed USUALLY the transfere rate it pretty good. The PI ERRORS can be anything from 75 to 1600 BUT on all the discs I have ever checked I have NEVER had any PI FAILIURES or any JITTER. Looking at the samples within this tread that seems a but strange. Am I using it correctly ? I can't see how there can be any way not to. My burner is AOpen 1648 or 1608 ( I can't remember). I have used different sorts of discs, at the moment Ritek but I think they are Tiwian, although these days even these could be fake. I just buy what they have at the local computer shop.

Farnk