Philips DVDRW885K Double Layer - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The Philips DVDRW885K supports 40x maximum reading DAE speed with CAV reading strategy.

Nero CDSpeed shows that the drive surpassed the specifications. The test finished with a maximum DAE speed of 42.8x plus very good seek times.

To test the ripping speed of the DVDRW885K, we ripped the contents of the same audio disc to our hard disk, using the CDDAE software. For CD-R media we used a clone of the pressed disc.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

The Philips drive managed to rip the contents of our 90/99min test discs successfully.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For this test procedure, we used two audio discs with different audio protection schemes. We tested for both recognition and ripping to the hard disk. The software used was Exact Audio Copy.

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Sony Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island)

The DVDRW885K model managed to playback and rip the contents of both protected audio discs without problems, while the DVDR824P had problems with CDS200 files during playback where it produced muting and skip errors.

• Cactus Data Shield 200.0.4 - 3.0 build 16a (Aiko Katsukino - The Love Letter)