DVD+R DL - Page 1

The DVDR1640P is capable of writing Double Layer discs, nearly doubling the capacity that can be stored on one disc. For our tests, we used the only two available DVD+R DL media from Verbatim and TraxData.

According to Philips, the DL media support list with firmware P2.2 is:

- Writing Tests

We burned two DVD+R DL discs with DVD-Video content. The source disc was "Gladiator Movie - Special Edition" disc1 with a total size of 6.86GB. First, we transferred the movie to the hard disc with DVD Decrypter as ISO format (single file). Afterwards, we used CopyToDVD v3.0.0.26. After choosing the "GLADIATOR.ISO" image we selected the Philips DVDR1640P burner.

After pressing "OK", the burning procedure started...

The writing process was finished after 39:57 minutes. The average speed was 2.25X as reported by CopyToDVD software. The recorded disc had DVD-ROM format booktype setting.

The drive didn't have any problems writing the Ritek DL media, while the burning time was 8secs longer:

For comparison reasons, we post DL burning results for other writers, with the same disc content and same recording software:

As was expected, the ASUS and Pioneer drives have much lower recording times, since they support the 4X DL writing speed.