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Bulkpaq 8x DVD-R Printable Surface DVD-R



Dias_Flac

Disc ID: TTG02

Hardware used:
Pioneer DVD-121 DVD-ROM
Pioneer A07XLB firmware rev. 1.18
Epson R300 printer
Ronin DVD-215 DVD player
Silver PS2 (Version 9)
XBOX (version 1.2)

1st disc:
Burnt an image file (4.35 GB) of a movie at 8x using DVD Decrypter.
Burn failed at 86% - Write Error (Presumably due to the wallet - this disc was the most visibly marked).
Used for print test - Inner 42mm Outer 118mm - Not the best quality, white lines visible in print.

2nd disc:
Burnt VIDEO_TS folder (4.35 GB) at 8x using Nero Express.
Burn process completed in 8 minutes 22 seconds.
Verify completed successfully in 26 minutes 8 seconds.
ISO image read in 8 minutes 28 seconds.
Average Read Rate: 7,088 KB/s (5.1x) - Maximum Read Rate: 12,744 KB/s (9.2x).
Disc played back flawlessly in the Ronin player.

3rd disc:
Burnt PS2 game (4.37 GB) at 8x using DVD Decrypter.
Burn process completed successfully in 8 minutes 15 seconds.
Verify completed successfully in 9 minutes 34 seconds.
Average Verify Rate: 7,991 KB/s (5.8x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 11,369 KB/s (8.2x).
Game loaded quickly and quietly in a very fussy v9 Silver PS2.

4th disc:
Burnt XBOX game (4.37 GB) at 8x using DVD Decrypter.
Burn process completed successfully in 8 minutes 16 seconds.
Verify completed successfully in 9 minutes 38 seconds.
Average Verify Rate: 7,939 KB/s (5.7x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 11,393 KB/s (8.2x).
Game loaded quickly in XBOX.

5th disc:
Burnt data/video/mp3 files (4.21 GB) at 8x using Nero Express.
Burn process completed successfully in 8 minutes 18 seconds.
ISO image read in 9 minutes 28 seconds.
Average Read Rate: 7,790 KB/s (5.6x) - Maximum Read Rate: 10,825 KB/s (7.8x).

Conclusion:
A very good all-round disc that works well for movies, PS2, XBOX and backup.
The printable surface is on a par with Ritek printables but not quite as good as Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden.


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Virtual_Earth

Hardware used:
Intel Penium III 1.13Ghz
Pioneer DVD-RW 108 OEM with 'official' firmware

Software used:
Nero version: 6.3.1.25 under Windows XP 5.1

Disks have a plain white top and a medium purple coloured write-side.

First Disk
Burned a Nero 'image' of a movie backup, noticed that there was an option to write the disk at 12 speed, however, selected 8 speed and created a successful burn in under 9 mins.

Second Disk
Burned another movie backup, this time using a saved project from a folder, at 8 speed with a similar outcome to the first.

Third Disk
Burned another movie from a Nero image, this time writing at 12 speed, got another successful burn in 7 mins.

Fourth and Fifth Disks
Used to store MP3s and data, respectively, at 8 speed and got 2 successful backups.

Conclusion:
Flawless playback on the Akura and Philips DVD players. I not sure I use them for data backup, but should be fine for movie/game backups. A decent disk that performs very well, even at 12 speed, and is slightly better than the Datawrite 'Grey Top' with the 8 speed Fuji dye.


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Backupking

Hardware used:
amd atlon 2600
Pioneer DVD-RW 107 OEM with 'official' firmware

Software used:
Nero version: 6.3.1.25 under Windows XP with service pack 2.

Disks have a plain white top and a medium purple coloured write-side.

Burned first disk with stomp record max from a retail back up on hard drive burned fine in 8mins no problems at all.

Second disk: burned another movie backup, this time using a saved project from a folder, at 8 speed with a similar outcome to the first.

Third disk: burned a ps2 dvd game from hard drive played fine in my messaig chip version 5 ps2.

Fourth disk: i used to store a xbox dvd game played fine in my chipped xbox my xbox and the samgung dvd rom.

Fith disk: i used to store MP3s respectively, at 8 speed and got 1 successful backups.

Conclusion:
Flawless playback on the ronin and Paffic DVD players. I not sure I use them for data backup, but should be fine for movie/game backups. A decent disk that performs very well.


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bsg

Hardware used:
Athlon Barton 2500xp@3200xp (2.2ghz)
Abit NF7S V2.0 Motherboard
Seagate 60gb, 80gb Hard Drives ATA133
WD 120gb SATA Hard Drive
Liteon 163D DVDROM (Firmware Revision GHR3)
Pioneer 108 DVDRW (Firmware Revision >NIL's 1.06 16 for all, riplock removed etc)
Acard 2202d Duplicator with Pioneer 121 DVDROM and Pioneer A07XLA Writer, both stock firmware
Epson Photo Stylus 900 printer

Software Used:
Tmpgenc DVD Author 1.6
DVD Decryptor 3.5.1.0
DVD Info Pro
DVD Lap Pro Beta
Nero 6 Ultra Edition

Disc 1
1,125,070,848gb of VHS footage converted to dvd complint MPEG-2 and authored using DVD Lab Pro Beta.



Wrote at x8 on Pioneer 108. Disc started off at x6 until 1:30 when x8 kicked in. Disc was completed in 2:45 and read back in using dvdinfor pro. The results were pretty good as far as I can tell... The disc plays fine in xbox, ps2, laptop and PC drives, and 3 different standalone players, 1 which is particularly fussy about what it reads.

Disc 2
2,778,066,944gb of VHS footage converted to dvd complint MPEG-2 and authored using DVD Lab Pro Beta.



Wrote at x12 (after seeing Stealth's post) on Pioneer 108. Disc started off at x6 until 1:30 when x8 kicked in. x12 kicked in at 4:00. The buffer remained steady at 97%. Disc was completed in 5:25 and read back in using dvdinfor pro. The results were pretty good as far as I can tell... The disc plays fine in xbox, ps2, laptop and PC drives, and 3 different standalone players, 1 which is particularly fussy about what it reads.

Disc 3
1.10gb of assorted data (mp3, word documents, pdf's, zip's etc) wrote using Nero 6 Ultra Edition. Completed in 2:25 and read back in. No problems with any part of it.



Disc 4
Xbox game copied using Acard 2202d duplicator set at x4. Copy completed in 11 minutes and played on Xbox version 1.1 with Thompson drive. Picked up straight away, no stuttering and perfect play.

Disc 5
PS2 game copied using acard 2202d duplicator. Copy completed in 9:45 and played on a version 2 ps2 with executor modchip in. Again the game was recosgnised in very quick time and played again without a problem.

I used the Epson stylus 900 to print labels on each of the discs and was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the print surface.

Conclusion:
All in all these seem to be very good discs and dependant on price, could quite easily see myself switching to these as a 'cheap' disc Smile.

Added:  Friday, October 08, 2004
Reviewer:  Ed

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