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						| babaganNewbie 
   | 23. November 2005 @ 12:11 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							according to the nero disk quality test which of the below media is better? pls advice, which parameters do I look out for?
 General Information
 Drive: _NEC    DVD_RW ND-3550A
 Firmware: 1.05
 Disc: DVD-R (MCC 02RG20  )
 Selected speed: 8 X
 PI errors
 Maximum: 6660
 Average: 3316.83
 Total: 35800581
 PI failures
 Maximum: 1036
 Average: 427.94
 Total: 4337718
 PO failures: n/a
 Jitter: n/a
 Scanning Statistics
 Elapsed time: 7:29
 Number of samples: 11105
 Average scanning interval: 8.29 ECC
 Glitches removed: 0
 
 General Information
 Drive: _NEC    DVD_RW ND-3550A
 Firmware: 1.05
 Disc: DVD-R (EZOSDVDR)
 Selected speed: 8 X
 PI errors
 Maximum: 3866
 Average: 1060.19
 Total: 16558645
 PI failures
 Maximum: 274
 Average: 30.35
 Total: 432374
 PO failures: n/a
 Jitter: n/a
 Scanning Statistics
 Elapsed time: 15:17
 Number of samples: 16425
 Average scanning interval: 8.15 ECC
 Glitches removed: 0
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						| AfterDawn Addict 
   | 23. November 2005 @ 14:53 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							@babagan
 It's hard to tell those 2, so why don't you scan them again and post up a png or jpeg picture from both.
 
 Here is what you're mainly looking for.  Below is a backup of mine (16X Verbatim DVD+R "Advanced Azo"), I just burned it today.
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
  
 
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						| babaganNewbie 
   | 23. November 2005 @ 21:59 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							will do another test and post pictures. From the test I orginally posted  
the first is a Verbatim 8x DVD-R and the second Optical Storage DVD-R, latter meant to be very bad. I wanted to check whether the test would show it. btw which one is the quality score?
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						| AfterDawn Addict 
   | 23. November 2005 @ 22:57 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Quote:Look at picture for PI Failures and Quality Score.will do another test and post pictures. From the test I orginally posted
 the first is a Verbatim 8x DVD-R and the second Optical Storage DVD-R, latter meant to be very bad. I wanted to check whether the test would show it. btw which one is the quality score?
 
 
 
  
 
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						| babaganNewbie 
   | 24. November 2005 @ 04:28 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Just did a test on a 8x Ricoh DVD-R (expensive and supposedly good, made in Taiwan though), tested at maximum speed (16x) and got 95 quality score and 9 failures. I am a bit disappointed. The dvds that I test all have different things written on them some are DVD-video, some data-DVD, hope this doesnt affect the test.
 
 
 p.s. I seem to get a lot more failures when testing at lower speeds?!
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						| AfterDawn Addict 
   | 24. November 2005 @ 09:27 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							@babagan
 I've never used Ricoh or Ritek before, but I think they're decent media.  However, in my opinion Taiyo Yuden, Verbatim and Maxell (made in japan) are the best.  Nearly all my Maxell scans are on par with the famous Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim, with only 2 or 3 on PI Failures and a Quality Score of 95 (same with my Yuden and Verbatim backups).
 
 I think the best way to get the precise results is to scan at the speed when you burned them on.  For example: I scanned my 16X Verbatim DVD+R "Advanced Azo" at 4X because I burned it on 4X speed.
 
 
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						| CobrajetMember 
   | 26. November 2005 @ 20:51 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							Why would my START button be grayed out?  I was able to perform all the  Benchmark tests just fine..
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						| AfterDawn Addict 
   | 27. November 2005 @ 09:58 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							@cobrajet
 Seriously, I don't know.  However, if you're able to perform Benchmark, Scandisc, etc. then you should be able to scan/perform any task in there.  My suggestion would be to Exit out, and start Nero CD-DVD Speed again to try if you'll be able to start the scan this time.  If that failed to do so, then it's worth to "uninstall" Nero (I recommend using Nero's General Clean Tool - to completely wipe out Nero) and do a fresh "reinstall" over.
 
 
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						| CobrajetMember 
   | 27. November 2005 @ 10:10 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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						| babaganNewbie 
   | 21. December 2005 @ 05:07 |  Link to this message   | 
					
					
					
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							never got it to work. finally bought an external dvdrw from NEC and everything works like a charm now. it was the burner all along
							
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