Testing the Benq 1650 and more

[Chewy]

katz,

for the pioneers geeks, that's not a problem anymore than for the nec geeks.



you just have to decide are you a geek or a




JK

[katzdvd]

[gvera]

Hi gonwk

I'll try to answer your questions

1) What Brand?
As I said before, good media is not avaliable here, I've tried lots of low quality media like Princo, Optodisc, Imation, Memorex, etc brands, the media itself are fake of whatever you can imagine.

I settled with Benq -R 8x (SONY08D1 if I remember correctly) but then the batch changed and the new ones sucked, producing increasing errors at the end of the disc.
I am using Benq + R (DAXON AZ2) now with reasonable success, reading compatability in the players is high.

2) Rated Speed?
Most 8x some less at the begining of times, never saw 16x media in Uruguay till now.

3) What Speed did you burn it at?
Tried every speed, you'll laugh but what gives me the best results is burning the 8x Benq+R at 12x.
Usually lower speeds give me worst burns.

4) Which program did you use to burn it with?
Decrypter and Nero.
Nero at 12x with the 8x Benq +R is the best combination I found till now.
Usually Nero is called form DVDShrink when none or very very little compression is needed, if not I use DVDRebuilder/CEE + Decrypter or Nero

5) How long did you have this burned dvd "stored", before replay?
Hours to days.

For the record, my burner is a Pioneer 108 (tried almost every firmware available in the web) and my DVD players are a quite old Pioneer 414 and Denons 2900, 3910 and S-301.

Regards
Gustavo

Edited 'iffy' part

[gvera]

benq's don't like crap media, they are fussy eaters

Chewy, Which burner would you recommend for lesser media?

GV

[Chewy]

the nec's are the best I have run into at burning a usable disk with crap media, my old pioneer 105's did a good job also

glad you are from uruguay and I don't know beans about their laws

rent movies

please read rule 6

http://forum.digital-digest.com/faq.php?faq=vb_faq#faq_new_faq_item

[gvera]

Chewey,

I apologize for posting that.
I'm also concerned my posts are somehow out of topic...

Thanks for your answers.

Regards
Gustavo

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

@ Chewey, can you "EDIT" iffy posts ... like the rent portion of gvera?

@ gvera, thanks for the answers. I am not a guru in this area ... but what I would do if I were you 1) If you can get a BenQ1640 or BenQ1650. 2) you can almost use any crapy media to burn. 3) get "Imgburn" program. 4) try backing up first to an "ISO" file then 5) use Imgburn to burn to your media. 6) burn at 8X speed.

G!

[NightTran]

Benq 1655 free shipping

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827101006

[gvera]

I edited the post and removed the conflicting part.

GV

[gonwk]

Hi Gvera & Nighttran,

@ Nighttran, you know I have a BenQ1640 ... and it is still live and kicking ... but I wonder If I should get me 1650/1655 ...
If I don't care for the "Lightscribe" ... since I don't plan to cough up the price for their blanks ... I wonder if 1655 is any better than the 1650 ... you know even though both have same chipset ... sometimes one machine is built a little better ... or is this my misconception!?!?!?
BTW, Thanks ... for the "Sale" heads up.

Thanks,
G!

[katzdvd]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827101006

Thanks for the link, Night!

I am slowly building my burning arsenal, & I have been keeping an eye open for special deals! Now I have a 2nd burner on the way!

Thanks again, katz

[Chewy]

so many benq's, so few ~100 pif/total scans in the scan thread,

[NightTran]

Hi Gvera & Nighttran,

@ Nighttran, you know I have a BenQ1640 ... and it is still live and kicking ... but I wonder If I should get me 1650/1655 ...
If I don't care for the "Lightscribe" ... since I don't plan to cough up the price for their blanks ... I wonder if 1655 is any better than the 1650 ... you know even though both have same chipset ... sometimes one machine is built a little better ... or is this my misconception!?!?!?
BTW, Thanks ... for the "Sale" heads up.

Thanks,
G!

I have 2 40, 1 50 and 1 55, my 55 burn best with Ty 8x-, 40burn best with Ty 8x+ ( the sony one), I never like my 50, always lower score then the 40 and 55. I love my 1640 because it can burn very good any thing I thow at it, just not memorex ( I jsut can't trust it).

I would pay twice the price of the 55 for the 40, but you got to know that burner are different from one to another even they are the same model, you have to burn the same batch and same source to test out which one is best for what brand + - and others..., I spend alot more time scanning out side ( external ) before I put them in my computer

I hope that help

[gonwk]

Hi Nightttran,

THANKS! After what you said, I am going to get the 1655 ... also just in case if I change my mind about Lightscribe .. it be nice to have that feature.

Thx! & Good Night!
G!

[locoeng]

This is my second burn with my new BenQ DW1655 using Recode and Burning Rom....and it's supposed to get better? I was at nearly 50% before I got my first PI hit.