TDK 882N 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.

There is a small bug introduced with all NEC based DL drives. The TDK firmware has the same bug. You can see that the drive identifies the disc as if there is only one layer. However, disc capacity and recording speed are correct.

We then used Nero CDSpeed, and again the disc was recognised as Single Layer media.

However, disc capacity, media type and book type seems to be correct.

We also tried to use a Ritek D01 Double Layer disc, to investigate the compatibility of the drive. Unfortunately, the drive could not even start the burning proccess with this type of disc. The media code and the supported writing speed are shown below. You will notice that only 1X writing speed is supported, making recording impossible.

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

The software prompts us to select Video_TS/ISO image folder. We chose the "GLADIATOR.ISO" image and we selected the TDK 882N burner.

After pressing "OK", the burning procedure started, without any unexpected delays. It should be noted that the Booktype setting could not be changed. The writing process was finished after 37:17 minutes. The average speed was 2.38X as reported by CopyToDVD. 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 TDK 882N, LaCie d2 DL and NEC ND-2510A were the fastest drives that support 2.4X DL writing speed.