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While vendors have called a ceasefire in the DVD format war with the release of dual and tri-format burners, the market is still gripped by a speed war as opposing units get faster and cheaper. The bar has been raised to 8x DVD-/+R but, even though 8x burning has been with us for several months, unfortunately blank 8x DVD-Rs are still rare.
The situation with 8x DVD+R isn't much better. Upgrade has been told the situation should improve next month. Pioneer's DVR-AO7 DVD burns -/+R at 8x, -/+RW at 4x speed and CD-R/RW at 24x. It comes bundled with a single JVC 8x DVD-R, giving you just one chance to enjoy 8x burning speeds before discs hit the Australian shelves. After scrounging a Verbatim 8x DVD+R we had two chances at breaking the speed barrier and the DVR-AO7 didn't disappoint.
Using the bundled Ulead Burn Now it wrote 4.25 GB to the 8x DVD-R in an impressive 8 minutes 44 seconds, after spending 2 minutes 51 seconds writing a disc image. The software offers the option of a direct burn. The same burn on the 8x DVD+R took 9 min 01 sec, after spending 2 min 56 sec writing a disc image.
Turning to a Datastream 4x DVD-R, Ulead Burn Now wrote 4.22 GB in 14 min 54 sec (plus 2 min 51 sec writing disc image) - a very respectable 4x burn time. While the DVR-AO7 easily gave the speed barrier a good shellacking, it was surprisingly quiet. The retail version comes bundled with Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3 SE Suite, offering DVD/CD burning for data, video and music files along with basic DVD authoring and a DVD playback.
Video-editing facilities are provided by Ulead Video Studio 7 SE and Ulead DVD Picture Show SE caters for still images. The TMPGEnc MPEG1/2 + DOLBY AC-3 Audio Encoder and DVD-lab offer advanced DVD authoring and video encoding respectively. Competitively priced and from a highly respected name in the optical drive market, Pioneer's DVR-AO7 gets a tick in every box.
www.smh.com.au/articles/200...31476461.html
The situation with 8x DVD+R isn't much better. Upgrade has been told the situation should improve next month. Pioneer's DVR-AO7 DVD burns -/+R at 8x, -/+RW at 4x speed and CD-R/RW at 24x. It comes bundled with a single JVC 8x DVD-R, giving you just one chance to enjoy 8x burning speeds before discs hit the Australian shelves. After scrounging a Verbatim 8x DVD+R we had two chances at breaking the speed barrier and the DVR-AO7 didn't disappoint.
Using the bundled Ulead Burn Now it wrote 4.25 GB to the 8x DVD-R in an impressive 8 minutes 44 seconds, after spending 2 minutes 51 seconds writing a disc image. The software offers the option of a direct burn. The same burn on the 8x DVD+R took 9 min 01 sec, after spending 2 min 56 sec writing a disc image.
Turning to a Datastream 4x DVD-R, Ulead Burn Now wrote 4.22 GB in 14 min 54 sec (plus 2 min 51 sec writing disc image) - a very respectable 4x burn time. While the DVR-AO7 easily gave the speed barrier a good shellacking, it was surprisingly quiet. The retail version comes bundled with Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3 SE Suite, offering DVD/CD burning for data, video and music files along with basic DVD authoring and a DVD playback.
Video-editing facilities are provided by Ulead Video Studio 7 SE and Ulead DVD Picture Show SE caters for still images. The TMPGEnc MPEG1/2 + DOLBY AC-3 Audio Encoder and DVD-lab offer advanced DVD authoring and video encoding respectively. Competitively priced and from a highly respected name in the optical drive market, Pioneer's DVR-AO7 gets a tick in every box.
www.smh.com.au/articles/200...31476461.html
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