Philips DVDRW228 IDE DVD+RW - Page 4

DAE Tests

- DAE features

- Pressed AudioCD results

Both Philips and Ricoh drives performed similar with pressed Audio discs. The Philips is a bit faster with 23.4X while the Ricoh MP5125A follows with 23.3X:

- CDR AudioCD Results

Philips DVDRW228 performs badly with Audio CD-R discs. The drive reduced its speed and gave only 10.3X average ripping speed. Ricoh MP5125A performed better with 17.9X:

- EAC Secure Extract Ripping mode

The following results come after each drive's build-in detection function:

- Advanced DAE Quality

Both drives completed the Nero CD Speed "Advanced DAE test" with a "100" quality score. The Philips drive has 23.54X average reading speed, it can read CD-Text and Subchannel data and from the Lead-In area:

- Bad CDR Media results

The disc is dirty, and with some light scratches, enough in order cause problems to most of the tested drives. We used CD DAE 99 software to rip the whole disc (756539616 sectors) and the results were very interesting:

Both drives finished the test in the same average ripping speed. Philips DVDRW228 produced more errors than the Ricoh drive.

- CD-Check Audio Test Disc

The Philips drive did not manage to completely fulfil the 2nd level error correction requirements, and failed to successfully playback (no audible pops or clicks) the other level tones.

- Ripping 90 and 99mins AudioCDs

The drive recognizes 90min AudioCDs but when 99 min CDs are inserted, it will stop reading at 86 min.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used 2 protected AudioCDs, which we tested in both recognition and ripping (with EAC) processes:

* Pressed AudioCD with Sony Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)
* Pressed AudioCD with Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island)

Both drives can handle only CD200 protected audio titles. When Key2Audio discs are inserted, the drives will not recognize the disc contents.