TDK 882N Recorder - Page 17

Conclusion

After the big success of NEC's ND drive series, TDK uses NEC's OEM products to release this Double Layer recorder. The TDK 882N showed weak performance in the reading tests. The CD/DVD error correction needs improvement, and the drive cannot make SafeDisc 2.60+ backups and cannot recognize 99mins discs.

However, writing quality is the main advantage of this drive. Following on NEC's footsteps, the recorder has excellent writing quality, making it one of the best DVD writers available. The writing performance with Double Layer media from Verbatim was very good although the drive didn't recognize Ritek's DL media, something that future firmware updates are expected to fix.

The drive offers the option to change the Booktype of DVD+R DL media to DVD-ROM, increasing compatibility with DVD players, since it supports Booktype Setting for +R/+RW media.

If you need a good quality writer, but you don't care much about reading performance, you might want to consider the TDK 882N recorder.

- The Good

• Excellent CD writing quality with low Jitter values
• Very good DVD writing quality
• Supports CD-Text (reading/writing)
• Supports audio protected discs
• Supports booktype setting for +R/+RW media

- The Bad

• Low CD/DVD error correction ability
• RITEK DL media doesn't supported with 2.35 and 2.36 firmware
• Mount Rainier is not supported
• Cannot read or rip 99min Audio CD's
• Cannot create working backups of SafeDisc protected games over v2.60
• DAE speed only up to 32X

- Like To be fixed

• Faster ripping CSS DVD-Video performance
• More supported media for 8X/Double Layer