I thought this might help out everyone in trying to decide what media might be best to use with our BenQ 1620's if we started posting some scans.

We can keep it clean and simple with just Type of media and what speed you burned it at and a scan.

MOD's , I wasn't sure if I can start this type of thread considering there is a seperate media forum but with the 1620 drive being so new I figure we might save some questions and help some people out on what media to get. If you delete it or move it let me know , thanks


Here is a scans to get use started.

here is a Memorex 8x burned at 8x DVD-R (jewel case 5 pack) RITEKG05




and a That's 4x burned at 8x (jewel cases TY) YUDEN000T01, I can't get more than 8x from these, I don't know why but I have 115 more to try on.

Memorex CDRW RicohJPN

I wondered if we should have a separate thread for - media. I'd also like to see us rate the media for quality and consistency 1-10.

TDK - RicohJPN

Hmmmm, I must be missing something. I don't see the burn speed posted on any of these.

Opps! My bad, I see them with EagleClaw's post.............

Fuji TY02 at 8x

I think here will welcome 1610's meida test too.

Burned at 8X, the 1st TY T01 Disc.

Rima TY02's 8X

Sony08D1 8x DVD-R @16x (B7M9)

Damn, I'm using the wrong media.............

I must be missing something here, I don't see the option to edit my posts.

Update write speeds.
Memorex CDRW RicohJPN Rated 4X Burnt 4X
TDK - RicohJPN Rated 4X Burnt 8X

Weird this post allows me to edit but my first two don't.

You can only edit your post in the first 30 minutes.

Thanks Hef, thought it may have been something like that.

Sid

Ritek X Series DVD+R (RicohJPN02) 8x@16x with BenQ 1620 f/w B7M9


Not really 16x though..


Smooth transfer rate graph


Nero scans turned out beautiful.

@Silverboi

What version of CD Speed are you using?

When using the 1620, ver 3.42 will show PIF, and you will be able to scan faster than 1X.

You will be able to find CD Speed 3.42 HERE

I noticed some people are doing scans at 4X and some people are doing scans at Maximum (8X?).

I get very different results when scanning at 4X than I do at 8X.

So which speed should be used?

I scan at both 4X and 8X, depending on how much time I have. For optimum results scan @4X

Erm yeah..actually, I do know..thanks..
It's just that I was lazy to rescan it when I got the program..LMAO..

In any case, heres a burn I just did..

Phillips DVD+R 16x@16x
BenQ 1620 (B7M9)
Nero 6.6.0.1

Not true 16x, but heck..a few seconds doesnt matter to me.


Smooth transfer graph


Sweet sweet nero scan..Can't Kprobe until I receive my TDK AID1280B from RMA though.

I would really appreciate some more -R scans, please, please, please.

Also, feel free to post BAD scans, we can learn from that, too!

with benq scans done at 8x will be fine. I say do your scans at 8x to make them more comparable

I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "will be fine".

The scans I do at 8x are much worse than the scans I do at 4x (on the same disc).

most using benq for scanning are doing it at 8x because it scans differently then liteon drives.
how much worse is your scan at 8x than 4x?
if I do a scan at 8x and it comes out bad then it won't do that much better at 4x either.

I don't get this... If you look at PIF error on the scans of the first post, you see that they come up to about 6. I notice that the score that CDSpeed gives on DW1620 is a lot higher than for Liteon. If you get a PIF of 4 or more, the score will drop quite a bit....

So what am I mssing here? Is the Jitter value somehow compensate the calculations?

I frankly don't see too much difference.

Scan read at 4X


Scan read at 8X