NEC ND-2510A Recorder - Page 14

DVD+R DL - Page 1

- Writing Tests

We burned some DVD+R DL discs with DVD-Video content. The source disc was "Gladiator Movie - Special Edition" disc1 with a total size of 6.86GB. First we transferred the movie to the hard disc with DVD Decrypter as ISO format (single file). The following picture shows the media code of the Double Layer disc we used.

Observant users will see from the screenshot above a small bug that the NEC ND-2510A has. The Double Layer disc we used came from RITEK and MKM, and in both cases the drive recognizes them as Single Layer discs. We then used Nero CDSpeed, and again the disc was recognized as Single Layer media.

However, the disc capacity, media type and book type seem to be correct. It appears NEC has to work on their next firmware release on this one.

Afterwards, we used CopyToDVD v3.0.0.16. The friendly wizard prompts us to choose from among the main tasks:

For our test, we used the "Movie & Pictures" option, and then the "Write DVD Video".

The software prompts us to select Video_TS/ISO image folder. We chose the "GLADIATOR.ISO" image and we selected the NEC ND-2510A burner.

After pressing "OK", the burning procedure started, without any unexpected delays (such as 50secs delay experienced with the LiteON 832S). It should be noted that the Booktype setting could not be changed.

The writing process finished after 37:17minutes. The average speed was 2.38X as reported by CopyToDVD software. The recorded disc was in DVD+R9 format.

For comparison reasons, we post some burning results from other DL writers, which all burned the same content ("Gladiator Movie - Special Edition" disc1), using CopyToDVD software:

The NEC ND-2510A was the fastest drive. Very good performance with Double Layer media from NEC.

We then tried to burn a Double Layer media provided by Traxdata. The drive reported 1X writing speed, making it unable to burn. There is a solution for this issue, but a hacked unofficial firmware must be applied. We will comment on this later on this preview.