Testing Media Quality - Page 1

Introduction

Most users possibly have this question in their minds. How can we test a burned disc? Are there any special utilities for this propose? To answer to that question, we have tested all existing utilities that can be used with normal CD/DVD-ROM & CD-RW drives.

In general we can seperate the utilities in three major categories:

- Utilities that check the idegrity of a pressed/burned disc:

• CD Check
• CD-R Diagnostics
• CD-R Inspector
• CD Roller
• Disc Inspector
• EclipseSuite
• Nero CD Speed
• PlexTools
• ScanCD
• Sector Scanner

- Utilities with the ability to measure C1/C2 errors of a pressed/burned disc

• CD Doctor
• CD-R Tools
• Nero CD Speed
• UM Doctor
• WSES

- Utilities that use C2 error information to extract Audio files from an Audio disc:

• CD Vergleich
• EAC
• Feurio