SONY DRU-710A Dual DVD±RW Recorder - Page 16

The SONY DRU-710A with firmware BY01 supports three media ID codes for 2.4X DL recording. Those are:

Mitsubishi Chemicals (MKM 001)
Ricoh ( RICOHJPND00)
Traxdata ( Ritek D01)

We believe that with the next firmware release, more will be supported.

- Writing Tests

We burned one DVD+R DL disc with DVD-Video content and DVD-ROM BookType setting. As the source we used "Gladiator Movie - Special Edition" disc1 with total size of 6.86GB. First, we transferred the movie to the HDD with DVD Decrypter, stored in ISO format (single file). Afterwards, we used CopyToDVD v3.0.19 to burn the image and selected the SONY burner.

After pressing"OK", the burning procedure started:

and finished after 37:25 mins. The average speed was 2.35X as reported by the CopyToDVD software.

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

The SONY drive performed well. The best recording times belong the to Pioneer and Asus drives since both support 4X for the same task.