- Writing Tests

We burned some DVD+R DL and 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). We used Double Layer media provided by RiDisc and Verbatim (MKM).

We then used the latest CopyToDVD and specifically the "Movie & Pictures" option, and then "Write DVD Video". The software prompts us to select the Video_TS/ISO image folder. We chose the "GLADIATOR.ISO" image and we selected the BenQ DW1640 burner.

After pressing "OK", the burning procedure started without any unexpected delays.

We then repeated the same procedure for all media shown above. It should be noted that we did not change the default booktype setting to DVD-ROM booktype, prior to writing the disc, in order to investigate the default booktype setting for +R DVD media type.

The BenQ DW1640 can burn up to 8x on +R DL media and 4x on -R DL media. The following table indicates the recording times for double layer media. As you can see, the Verbatim +R double layer media was the fastest of all, since it was the only one that could be burned at 8X.

For comparison reasons, we post DL burning results with other writers, with the same disc content and same recording software. It looks like we have a new winner, since the 15minutes barrier has been broken with the DW1640 reporting the outstanding time of 14:14mins.