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Old 03-06-2005   #8 (permalink)
chas0039
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Re: DVD Burner-Pioneer-109

In summary, this drive is much better than the 107D I last tried. It still has no bitsetting but with the speed hack to the A09 firmware it is a great ripper and seem to be a good reader. However, the burn quality, in general has too many total errors and some bad skews and slopes. I routinely get much better quality burns with this media on LG 4163, NEC 3520, and even with the BenQ 1620. This has to be the worst burn I have seen on TYG02 from a 16X drive. Granted, I am very critical and all of these burns are acceptible and they play just fine. I just think a 16X drive should not show PIE max close to 70 on any quality media. And PIF totals in the thousands are just sloppy.
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