why is pif, pie so high:

here is one:General Information
Drive: BENQ DVD DD DW1620
Firmware: B7T9
Disc: DVD-R (ProdiscF01)
Selected speed: 8 X
PI errors
Maximum: 9
Average: 2.49
Total: 19189
PI failures
Maximum: 10
Average: 0.13
Total: 1518
PO failures: 0
Jitter
Maximum: 10.5 %
Average: 9.50 %
Scanning statistics
Elapsed time: 8:38
Number of samples: 14979
Average scanning interval: 8.00 ECC
Glitches removed: 0

Have you only done one burn? What's your burn speed?

The ProdiscF01 is not noted as a particularly high quality media. Mind you, it is a good deal better than Princo, but definitely not in the same class as Toyo Yuden. With that said, this is not a bad scan, at least as far as I can tell from what you posted. The true test is whether it will play back smoothly in your settop player. Have you tried that?

8x

no i have not. will do that.

that isnt very high... IMO.

Looks like a surprisingly good burn for that media. I'm impressed. So far I don't see any evidence that the 1620 does better with +R than -R. It seems to be about the same, despite the claims of others.

i think 1620 will take any cheap +R and burn, but not all cheap -Rs.