HLDS portable DVD Android external Recorder

Review Pages

1. Introduction
2. Retail Package
3. TrueDVD (Android TV)
4. Disc Link Platinum (Android TV)
5. Using the device with Mobile Phone/Tablet
6. TrueDVD (Amazon FireHD)
7. Disc Link Platinum (Amazon FireHD)
8. Drive Information/features
9. CD Reading Tests
10. DVD Reading Tests
11. CD-R Writing Tests
12. DVD Media Writing Strategy (DVD-R,DVD-RW,DVD+R,DVD+RW,DVD-RAM)
13. Memorex 16X DVD-R Media
14. Moser Baer India 16X DVD-R
15. Philips 16X DVD-R Media
16. RiDisc 16X DVD-R Media
17. Taiyo Yuden 16X DVD-R
18. Verbatim 16X DVD-R
19. DVD-R DL Quality
20. DataWrite DVD+R 16X Media
21. Verbatim (Mitsubishi Kagaru Media) DVD+R 16X Media
22. TDK DVD+R 16X Media
23. DVD+R DL Quality
24. Conclusion

The DVD-R DL media we tested comes from Verbatim (Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM) and as we can see is in the supported media list of the drive.

The drive uses P-CAV technology to write DL (double layer) media. It starts writing from 1.96X and reaches 6.00X after the 2.2GB mark and stays there until the 5.8GB mark, which again reduces speed down to 3.25X, resulting an average of 4.99X.

The drive can read the burned disc without any issues

while all contents are being verified OK!

Quality Measurements

Quality Summary Verbatim (MKM) 8X DVD-R DL Media
Media	Scanning Speed (Average)	PIE Errors (Average)	PIF Errors (Average)	POF Errors	Jitter Average (%)
HLDS GP96Y	3.40X	76.04	0.04	0	-
Benq DW1620	8.25Χ	139.59	0.20	81	11.99%
Pioneer BDR-206M	4.86Χ	3.61	0.01	Drive stops reporting errors at layer brake	-
LiteOn iHAS-124F	3.34X	47.24	0.06	0	11.30%
LiteOn iHAS-324F	3.36X	86.45	0.06	0	11.80%

The Verbatim 8X DVD-R DL, while burned OK and verified OK, it seems to have produced high spikes that most of the tested drives reported. We aren't so sure if this a problem with the specific batch of media we have or general...Unfortunaly we dont have other DVD-R DL media in our labs to test the HLDS drive.