Introduction
It's in very short supply at the moment but that didn't stop us at CDR-Zone.COM from getting our hands on 100 pieces of the new Taiyo Yuden 16x DVD-R media under the Miflop Xtreme branding super quick so that our readers can have a great idea of just how good/bad the compatibility of this new media is with a series of popular DVD recording and playback devices.
We are really quite excited about this review as many readers will know just how well the Miflop Xtreme 8x+/-R range of media could record at speeds of 12x and above on most writers. Also Taiyo Yuden have waited a long time before releasing their first 16x offering to the public with manufacturers such as Traxdata/Verbtaim/Infiniti and Ricoh having released their 16x range of media to the public quite a while back.
The fact that Miflop have chosen such a well established company as Taiyo Yuden (the company that is regarded as the leaders in recordable media excellence) to produce their first ever range of 16x media is hopefully a very good sign that they are taking their 16x range as seriously as they took their 8x range of Xtreme media which also used the Taiyo Yuden dye. Available in both printable and silver top versions, in this review we get to test the full face printable version of the Miflop Xtreme 16x DVD-R media.
We also get to introduce to our readers a new review recording device - the Pioneer 109 XL which was kindly supplied by SVP communications for use during our reviews - cheers SVP! During this review we will be looking to see if the Pioneer 109 XL can give as good a result with its recording of the Miflop Xtreme 16x DVD-R media as our other more established review recording devices.
| Detailed media information for the Miflop Xtreme 16x Printable DVD-R media | | Media name: | Miflop Xtreme 16x Printable DVD-R | | Brand: | Miflop Xtreme | | Manufacturer: | Taiyo Yuden | | Made in: | Japan | | Media ID Code: | TYG03 | | Media Type: | DVD-R | | Rated speed: | 16x | | Max. storage capacity: | 4.7GB | | Writing surface colour (dye): | Purple | | Top surface colour: | Full face printable or Silver top | | Printable top surface? | Yes |
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Some information on the media about Miflop media:
"Miflop Media is amongst the top 5 European Taiyo Yuden offical partners and work very hard to gaurantee the top grade of Taiyo Yuden media available today through their Miflop Xtreme range of media. Buy and record in confidence with media from the worlds leading brand name for Digital media quality."
Our review media came to us in a spindle of 100 with the spindle being shrink wrapped and very nice and tightly packed into a box with plenty of bubblewrap ensuring no damage could be caused during shipping. The disc itself that we are reviewing, as mentioned is from the Xtreme range and is a full face printable version of this disc although a non printable, silver top version is also available if so desired.
The recording surface is a light purple and carries the Media ID of TYG03 according
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VSO Inspector and should be capable of speeds of upto 16x on our review devices. Taiyo Yuden produced arguably the best 8x DVD-R disc ever and so it is with special interest that we see if the things that the 8x DVD-R version such a big hit with recording enthusiasts are present on the 16x DVD-R version. We must also point out that this review comes at a time when some DVD Writers may not have fully optimised support in their firmware at present.
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