Infiniti 16x DVD-R media review

Transfer and Playback results

So far in this review we have reported on how well/bad the Infiniti 16x DVD-R media has performed on our 6 review recording devices and given you a good idea as to how many errors may be left on the media for a playback device to correct according to our Liteon-IT 1653S. One thing this drive cannot mesaure is jitter.

So what is jitter and how does it have an impact on the recorded media?:

Jitter is how well balanced your recorded media stays at any given speed. It is normal for jitter to increase slightly the higher you record and the faster you read but a really top grade recording will have jitter within set specifications (12-13%) and no long periods of lower reading or 'slowdowns' will be noted at even the highest reading speed. We can forgive the odd small slowdown as a lot of things may have an impact on the ability to read at maximum speed such as background applications if reading on a PC.

What we don't want to see is any places with data refuses to transfer or playback properly.

Below you will find the results of the Transfer tests on the NEC 3500 AG which is our fastest PC DVD reading device.

Transfer Tests Below you will find the transfer tests carried out on the NEC 3500 AG at its fastest reading speed. Click the image of the drive we used to record the Infiniti 16x DVD-R media for it's scan results Pioneer DVR 108 with firmware version 1.18 BenQ DW 1620A with firmware version B7T9 NEC ND-3520 with firmware version 1.04 NEC 3500 AG with firmware version LDv2.TB Plextor PX-716A with firmware version 1.06 LiteOn 1653S with firmware version CS0K

Results show that the NEC 3500 AG encountered no fatal errors during the CD Speed transfer tests, reaching its maximum single layer reading speed of 16x for all tested media. The transfer test on the Liteon-IT 1653S recording did not show any slowdowns with a newer firmware than which was used when doing the review of the Verbatim 16x-R version of this media ID so it looks like Liteon have produced a very good firmware for recording this media at its maximum available speed of 12x in the 1653S in the short time it has taken us to do this review.

Given these facts we feel there are no reasons why we should see no problems with playback on these devices used for these tests with the NEC ND-3520, NEC 3500 AG and Plextor PX-716 highly recomended ( even with Power Rec off! ).

Our final test is the playback test of a DVD Video. For this review we chose the Plextor PX 716A with firmware 1.06 to record a DVD Video compilation with the Power Rec function disabled with CopyToDVD of 4464Mb (4.36GB) in size to the Infiniti 16x DVD-R media, again at 16x. As Plextor do not recommend disabling the Power Rec option, if this was to play back with any errors combined with the fact we had good quality scans then we are happy that we have a good recording. Again we will back this up by doing a Transfer test at high speed on the NEC 3500 AG. As it also our newest drive arriving just in time for this review and we wanted to get a general idea of how good the Plextor was at DVD Video recording to DVD-R media.

Another point worth mentioning is is that DVD-R media has been around a long time now so there really should be no compatibility issues at all at a read speed of 1x.

As expected at a read speed of 1x the recording showed no problems with playback in any of tested playback devices, wether they be PC based, standalone or console driven. Fast forwarding the DVD Video compilation at 16x on our PRISM standalone DVD player did not show any areas where the high speed fast forwarding stopped. Below you will find the full table of all tested playback devices used in our playback tests. We would also like to reconfirm that a high speed transfer on this disc did not produce any slowdowns either