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Pioneer 109 Buffalo 8.50FW DL Scan

PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2005 11:42 am
by seaegg
This is a scan of a burn I did with Pioneer 109 using the buffalo FW 8.50. The disc is a Memorex Dual Layer from a 3 pack I bought at Future Shop. This is by far and I mean far the best burn I've ever got using this media. The BenQ 1620 scores around 35 to 4o with this media even though in all fairness the resultant discs play back fine in all my DVD Players.

PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2005 11:58 am
by Ian
What speed was it burned at? 2.4x?

PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2005 2:08 pm
by seaegg
Yeah the Pioneer will only burn those discs at 2.4x. I gotta say I'm pleased. I was a bit nervous using the Pio to burn it because for me it's been the most disappointing burner I've ever owned but it came up trumps. The other nice thing is those discs are readily available in my area.

PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2005 2:33 pm
by falberni
Could you please post the qulity scan of the disk that you burnt with the BenQ 1620? I'm thinking about getting some of these Memorex DLs for my BenQ. Thanks.

PostPosted: Sat May 28, 2005 12:28 am
by seaegg
Oh I deleted those pics long ago but if my memory serves me correct I think I posted them on CD Freaks forum.

PostPosted: Sat May 28, 2005 5:09 pm
by seaegg
Fuji 8x DVD+R burned at 8x with Pioneer 1.09 using Buffalo FW 8.50. Not bad.

PostPosted: Sat May 28, 2005 5:25 pm
by Ian
That's damn good seaegg.

PostPosted: Sat May 28, 2005 11:01 pm
by seaegg
Yeah it's not bad at all. I was beginning to despair with my Pio and was going to sell it and get another BenQ but I think it's now a keeper. I should also note because I burn a lot I sometimes defrag 2 to 3 times a day. I buy a lot of old school Kung Fu and Cricket DVDs remaster them using TMPGEnc and then sell the originals. My copies look better than the originals and have way better quality scan scores for one thing. This takes a lot of time I know and it frags my drive so I'll never have a situation where I burn with a fragged drive because I'm a defrag nut. My sole aim is best quality so time doesn't matter to me. I really should build a dedicated system for this but my wife would kill me, especially since we're starting a whole slew of home renovations right now. :lol:

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 1:02 am
by Bhairav
seaegg wrote:Yeah it's not bad at all. I was beginning to despair with my Pio and was going to sell it and get another BenQ but I think it's now a keeper. I should also note because I burn a lot I sometimes defrag 2 to 3 times a day. I buy a lot of old school Kung Fu and Cricket DVDs remaster them using TMPGEnc and then sell the originals. My copies look better than the originals and have way better quality scan scores for one thing. This takes a lot of time I know and it frags my drive so I'll never have a situation where I burn with a fragged drive because I'm a defrag nut. My sole aim is best quality so time doesn't matter to me. I really should build a dedicated system for this but my wife would kill me, especially since we're starting a whole slew of home renovations right now. :lol:

[OT].. you a cricket fan? Favourite players?

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 1:42 am
by seaegg
Now you have to excuse my choices because I'm barbadian and born in the 50s but here goes. Sir Gary Sobers greatest cricketer to walk the planet, Viv Richards, Brian Lara, Lawrence Rowe, Alvin Kallicharan, Michael Holding (named my son after him), Sachin Tendulkar, Majid Khan, David Gower, Greg Chappell, Rameez Raja, Dennis Lillee, Gordon Greenidge, Aravinda De Silva to name some.

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 3:28 am
by Bhairav
seaegg wrote:Now you have to excuse my choices because I'm barbadian and born in the 50s but here goes. Sir Gary Sobers greatest cricketer to walk the planet, Viv Richards, Brian Lara, Lawrence Rowe, Alvin Kallicharan, Michael Holding (named my son after him), Sachin Tendulkar, Majid Khan, David Gower, Greg Chappell, Rameez Raja, Dennis Lillee, Gordon Greenidge, Aravinda De Silva to name some.


WOO! Good choices.. I haven't seen half of them live, but Lara, Tendulkar, Aravinda De Silva, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble.. my favourites.

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 6:43 am
by ETP
So I guess you guys are saying flash when I get my new 109 this week. =D>

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 7:21 am
by MediumRare
seaegg wrote:I should also note because I burn a lot I sometimes defrag 2 to 3 times a day.

Another OT question- do you use the standard Windows defragger? I defragged a 32 GiB partition over the weekend and it took 6 hours. :evil:

G

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 8:13 am
by dodecahedron
MediumRare wrote:Another OT question- do you use the standard Windows defragger? I defragged a 32 GiB partition over the weekend and it took 6 hours. :evil:

how long was it since you last defragged it ?

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 8:38 am
by MediumRare
First time. It's on a drive I've had for about a year. I've kept big images on it and moved some elsewhere, so I expected that defragmentation would be necessary. But 6 hours?

G

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 6:38 pm
by Scour
MediumRare wrote:First time. It's on a drive I've had for about a year. I've kept big images on it and moved some elsewhere, so I expected that defragmentation would be necessary. But 6 hours?

G


I´m not a fan of defragging, but I know the time depends on the speed of the HDD (seek times and transfer rate) and the free space of the HDD