VSO-Software presents second report about burners and media use.

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Back in December 2005, VSO Software published a first analysis of what the most popular CD and DVD writer manufacturers are and now they have released the second, updated report .

"In April 2005, we have slowly introduced a new feature to collect anonymous data about the burning process. These statistics are collected in a MySQL database and we used this database to focus our attention on some optical drives. The database contains information like drive model, firmware, media type and brand, burn speed and whether the burn has completed successfully or not. As of today the database contains more than 14 million records, collected by VSO products such as CopyToDVD, BlindWrite, PhotoDVD and ConvertXtoDVD ( formerly known as DivxToDVD ) but also by some 3rd party products which use VSO technology (Burning SDK). If you wonder why you should switch on the statistic option during installation, please read this. We published a first analysis in December 2005 and are now releasing the second, updated report . What are the most popular CD and DVD writer manufacturers ? What is the best DVD format to use (+R or -R) ? Is it that important to update the firmware? Have the last trends changed since December 2005 ?"

To check out the report yourself, click on this link.