Samsung SH-B123L review

Review Pages

1. Features, specifications
2. CD reading speeds
3. Reading of defected CDs
4. DVD reading speeds
5. Reading of defected DVDs
6. BD reading - Page 1
7. BD reading - Page 2
8. CD/DVD testing platform - The IQB Omni CD DVD Analyser by Quantized
9. CD-R burning - Taiyo Yuden 48x 80min
10. CD-R burning - Verbatim 52x 74min
11. CD-RW burning - Verbatim 32x
12. DVD-R burning - CMC Magnetics 16x CMC MAG AM3
13. DVD-R burning - Verbatim 16x MCC 03RG20
14. DVD-R burning - Datawrite 16x TTH02
15. DVD-R burning - Taiyo Yuden TYG03
16. DVD-R DL burning - Verbatim 8x MKM 03RD30
17. DVD-RW burning - Verbatim 6x MKM RW6X01
18. DVD+R burning - Prodisc 16x PRODISC R04
19. DVD+R burning - Philips 16x INFOME R30
20. DVD+R burning - Moser Baer India 16x MBIPG101R05
21. DVD+R burning - Taiyo Yuden 16x YUDEN T03
22. DVD+R DL burning - Verbatim 8x MKM 003
23. DVD+RAM burning - Maxell 5x MXL16, MXL22 12x
24. DVD+RW burning - Verbatim 16x MKM A03
25. Summary of CD and DVD quality, Bitsetting, overburning
26. Samsung MagicSpeed, Live Update, LightScribe
27. Summary

In the following table, we have gathered the findings of the CD and DVD quality measurement tests. On the left side of the table (green tabs) you can find the discs that did not produce uncorrectable digital errors (POF), while on the right side (red tabs) there are all the discs that gave uncorrectable errors (E32 for CD or POF for DVD's):

Media type	Digital errors within limits	Uncorrectable errors /Jitter
CD-R	Taiyo Yuden CD-R 48x certified (97m24s01f) burned at 48x	Verbatim CD-R 52x 74min burned at 48x
CD-RW	Verbatim CD-RW 32x 74min burned at 24x
DVD-R	Verbatim DVD-R 16x certified (MCC 03RG20) burned at 16x / Jitter slightly increased	Datawrite DVD-R 16x certified (TTH02) burned at 16x / PISum8 high, No POF, Jitter slightly increased
	CMCMAG AM3 16x burned at 16x --- Jitter
	Taiyo Yuden DVD-R 16x certified (TYG03) burned at 16X --- jitter slightly increased
DVD+R	Prodisc DVD+R 16x certified (PRODISC R04) burned at 8x --- Jitter slightly increased	Philips DVD+R 16x certified (INFOME R30) burned at 16x --- PISum8, No POF, Jitter
	Taiyo Yuden DVD+R 16x certified (YUDEN000 T03) burned at 16X --- Jitter slightly increased
	Moser Baer India DVD+R 16x certified (MBIPG101R05) burned at 16x / jitter slightly increased
DVD+RW	Verbatim DVD+RW 8x certified (MKM A03) burned at 8x -- Jitter increased
DVD-R DL		Verbatim DVD-R DL 8x certified (MKM03RD30) burned at 8x / PISum8 high for L1, POF, Jitter increased for both layers
DVD+R DL		Verbatim DVD+R DL 8x certified (MKM 003) burned at 8x --- Pisum8 & POF for L1, jitter
DVD-RW		Verbatim DVD-RW 6x certified (MKM 01RW6X01) burned at 6x --- PISum8, POF, jitter