DVD Recording Tests - Page 1

- Writing Performance

The BenQ DW1600A supports only DVD+R/RW and DVD+R DL writing. However, BenQ will provide support for DVD-R/RW writing with the DW1600A in a firmware update in the future.

The maximum supported speed for DVD+R is 16X (6X~16X P-CAV), 4X CLV for DVD+RW and 2.4X for DVD+R DL media. Nero Burning Rom reported speeds are shown below. Notice that the drive burns CLV at 2.4X and 4X writing speeds for DVD+R formats .

A new feature that is supported by the DW1600A DL recorder is over-speed burning. As there aren't many 16X DVD+R media available on the market, BenQ claims that users can still experience 16X and 12X writing speed with 8X DVD+R media. 10 brands of DVD+R media were tested, and according to BenQ, the over-speed burning media support list is shown in the table below (based on f/w B5C9, a newer version will support more 8X DVD+R media in over-speed burning):

By using Nero CD-DVD Speed's "create disc" function, we are able to see the 8X , 12X and 16X recording technology being used by the DW1600A DL recorder:

The drive completed successful DVD writing at 8X in 8:52min. It started writing at 5.26X, reached a maximum writing speed of 8.05X and reported an average speed of 7.51X.