Post your Nero cd/dvd speed quality scans here

@IHoe

I will not buy a burner based on high and low burn pattern alone. But look again at my burns. Where yours and others keeps PI Errors @maximum 20-30 at times, mine is usually quite a bit higher. And PI failures arent the lowest either. Ive seen some great scans on other NECs that I would be ashamed to compare mine to. Sure the disc plays, with quality seeming pretty good....for now. But im worried overtime the disc(with already higher than normal errors and failures) will degrade to the point they are unwatchable. Maybe im wrong for thinking that way.

@Binkie7

Price alone for that burner is enough incentive so im ordering now. Maybe 'til next weekend ill have some scans of one of the new 18x burners for everyone.

 

@pahick

Yes, that's LiteOns scanning I guess. LiteOn and BenQ are known to be the best burners out there according to my experiences. Most of the more advanced (knowledgeable memebers) here at AD would recommend "LiteOn and BenQ" if you'd asked me.

I have 2 LiteOns (SHW-160P6S & 1633S), actually one is a SONY DRU710 a rebadged LiteOn SOHW 1633S and yes they all burned and read precisely. Plus their "Book Type" tool is quite awesome indeed. Well, not necessary for the "Book Type Utility" if you have both Nero and ImgBurn or DVD Decrypter, you can set the book type to DVD-ROM via settings easily. This simplify our DVD player's life much easier.

Regards

 

I forgot to add in addendum to your soon-to-be LiteOn owner drive from above picture & link. I say; "go for it!", for that kind of low price $35 (this including shipping), it's a win win situation.

Originally, I was going to get one of the external/USB BenQ, but they're all out, then I went for LiteOn instead. Overall, LiteOn has never let me down, so far I'm pretty much satisfied.

As for burning & quality; anything with 70% - higher on the Video Quality ratio (meaning only 30% or less needs to be transcoded), I'll simply use Nero Recode on "Advanced Analysis + HQSR + Assign Best Quality to Main Movie" or I can use the Nero 7 Recode AEC changer patched by Solomon to "Max Smooth".

Anything lower than 70% on the Video Quality ratio (meaning 30% or more needs to be transcoded), then I'll fire up my DVD-RB Pro + CCE SP 2.70 to encode with 3 PASSES.

 

I do the same. I started out with AnyDVD/CloneDVD, but have quickly advanced to Recode or Rebuilder depending upon compression. Im quickly watching my bank account get smaller...lol..but it really is worth it.

BTW, I just bought that LiteOn so we will see this coming weekend if it is as good as ive read.

 

You'll love the Lite-on drive, I have 2 of them now and rarely have any sort of playback problems on any disk. Keep an eye on NewEgg's weekend specials, just picked up one (SHW-160P6S) for $28 with free shipping. Gave up trying to get ahold of a Benq drive.
Rob, one thing I noticed about my burn scores, they went up after I replaced a burnt out PSU, went up to a 450 watt supply and I think it does make a difference.
I am currently running a P-IV, 1.9 GHz with 1.0 Gigs of memory, 2 hard drives, 2 burners. I'm not sure how this system compares to yours, but it is able to rip a mean DVD Copy.

 

@BlivetNC.
i have a hp pavillion celeron 2.93ghz(small one not sure of the CPU right now but small)512mb mem 100gb hd dvd-rom drive and my burner. good family puter i guess.getting ready to do a backup of monster house and over the hedge for the granparents to have one there for next week when they boys go over . will post scans. there on memeorex but code out as MCC.....

 

here over the hedge on the memorex mcc


i just uninstalled and reinstalled clonedvd2 and noticed something i never seen before. has this been here allways? or is it new

 

just used shrink to put two 30 mins educational videos on 1 disc for my 4yo.no compression at all.still got a 95....

 

According to my experiences with SONY and LiteOn, it's extremely rare that you'll get any 98%, this is unless you only had "1 PI Failures," otherwise 2 PI Failrues is going to get you 95% of Quality regardless.

LiteOn and BenQ use different sets of scanning, a 95 from LiteOn is like 98 or 99 from BenQ already. What you really care for is to watch out for them PIF, if you have 5 or more PIF, then your backup disc may fade or likely to become corrupted (i.e. freezing, skpping, etc.) down the road.

 

Here's another one of mine, this is Final Fantasy VII: ADVENT CHILDREN, burned with Hitachi MAXELL 8X DVD+R "Made In Japan" which I did a rebackup today from an old backup (originally a Taiyo Yuden backup).




My 2nd backup on Hub Printable MAXELL002 by Hitachi Corp. "Made In Japan".



Original Final Fantasy VII: ADVENT CHILDREN dvd cover/label

 

Here are two more, both burnt @8x

 

@Alkohol.........

so the scans that pazzini just displayed shows quality scores of 97 and PIFs of [bold]MAXIMUM OF 6[/bold]... does this mean that eventually he'll have a problem down the road with his disks? Just curious on what you said.... I value your opinion.

 

@pazzini
how did you get Ice Age2 allready. not due out for another 2 weeks??? the boys are driveing me nuts to get it for them...lol

 

cincyrob,

Alright mate I got it from Tesco's for £9.47 (UK) a week ago

 

man you guys over the pond allways get stuff early...lol

 

This one is part of the reason I want to try the LiteON.....


This scan was going perfect, 98% until...well, you can see. And this happened not just with those Maxells. TY,Sony D21, Verbs..doesnt matter. Now will this effect the movie quality? IDK, the movie plays beautifully. Think it will effect anything? And do you think its a problem with the NEC? Oh, and it happens with both NEC's I have.

 

@pahick
is that disc scratched or smudged around the edge of it???i had a disc look like that once i just got it out and put it in th edrive to check it, seen almost the same thing. pulled it out and i had a small crack on the disc right at the edge of it... if im correct the disc read from the inside out, so everything looks fine untill the very end..... just a idea???

 

@cincyrob

No, the disc is perfect. No scratches, nothing. Like I said, this has happened before, about 6 discs in all that have scanned this way. I dont know whats going on, and thats why im going to try the LiteOn. Just makes me nervous seeing this happen. If it was just one disc, id forget it. But 6? And I just built this system a little over a month ago.

 

Cars is out today. i hope it dont have all the junk on it, thats causeing me problems with clonedvd2...lol this is a must to backup not letting the boys have the original... this movie rocks..lol


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