Infiniti 16x DVD+R media review

Transfer and Playback tests

So far in this review we have reported on how well/bad the Infiniti Pro 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 or Transfer device to correct according to our Plextor PX-716A using PXScan. One thing this hasn't been able to tell us is well the recorded media can be transfered at high speeds.

Of course playback will be performed at 1x on a DVD playback device and so judging by the results we shown up to now during our other tests we should have no problems with playback on any of the Infiniti Pro 16x+R media we have recorded to our review recording devices with the exception of maybe the Plextor with Power Rec disabled ( as we are using the Power Rec feature in this review, again the recordings should produce good to perfect playback. )

Small slowdowns are excepted for a perfect transfer but what we don't want to see is any places with data refuses to transfer on the NEC 3500 AG any of the recordings refusing to playback properly.

Below you will find the results of the Transfer tests on the NEC 3500 AG which we feel is our fastest and most reliable 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 Pro 16x DVD+R media for it's test results. Plextor PX-716A with firmware version 1.06 Pioneer DVR 108 with firmware version 1.19 BenQ DW 1620A with firmware version B7V9 NEC ND-3520 with firmware version 3.04 NEC 3500 AG with firmware version LDv2.TC LiteOn 1673S with firmware version JS07

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 pieces of the Infiniti Pro 16x+R media used for 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 and NEC 3500 AG highly recommended.

Our final test is the playback test of a DVD Video. For this review we chose the BenQ DW 1620A with firmware B7V9 to record a DVD Video compilation with CopyToDVD of 4464Mb (4.36GB) in size to the Infiniti Pro 16x DVD+R media, again at 16x. During the Disc Quality tests we kept finding a high PIF spike near the end of the recordings to the BenQ writer and so we feel that if this should playback fine then all the other review recording devices recordings should play back with any errors.

Again we will back this up by doing a Transfer test at high speed on the NEC 3500 AG.

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 that may have an impact on the quality of the disc.