Philips ED16DVDR DL Recorder - Page 20

DVD+R DL - Page 1

The ED16DVDR is capable of writing Double Layer discs, nearly doubling the capacity that can be stored on one single layer DVD disc. For our tests, we used the only two available DVD+R DL media from Verbatim and CMC Magnetics.

According to Philips, the DL media support list with firmware B5S6 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 in ISO format (single file). Afterwards, we used CopyToDVD v3.0.35. After choosing the "GLADIATOR.ISO" image we selected the Philips ED16DVDR burner.

First we tried with Verbatim Double Layer media. CopyToDVD reported 37:21mins total burning time with 2.4X average writing speed.

Then we repeated the same task, this time with media from CMC Magnetics. CopyToDVD required 37:20mins total burning time with 2.4X average writing speed.

For comparison reasons, we post some burning results from other DL writers, which all burned the same content ("Gladiator Movie - Special Edition" disc1), using the CopyToDVD software: