- Bitsetting

The Bitsetting feature allows the user to change all inserted DVD plus media to DVD-ROM to maximize compatibility with stand alone players. The Samsung SH-W162C is a Bitsetting enabled drive and all inserted media's booktype was changed to DVD-ROM through the automatic feature while burning with Nero. Thus, DVD+R,+RW,+R DL were all changed to DVD-ROM after burning. An issue occurred while using DVD+RW media, were the drive wouldn't recognize the booktype media change. The problem is outlined in the following two screenshots.

Verbatim media was identified as DVD+RW by the Samsung drive, even though the booktype change to DVD-ROM had been made successfully.

However, the same Verbatim DVD+RW media after the booktype change had been made, was identified as DVD-ROM by the LiteOn 167 DVD-ROM drive.

- Magic Speed

The Magic Speed Utility enables the user to set the reading speed of the drive in either of two modes. High speed and Silence mode. High speed enables reading as far up as 16X while the latter supports up to 4X reading speed as well as a more silent functioning of the drive. The procedure is quite easy and requires all of "two mouse clicks" to get you there.

Selecting the drive and checking silence mode, we press "Set" to get the work done.

Nero DriveSpeed Utility confirms the speed changes.. We inserted a DVD-ROM disc to check the speed and we got the following...

And back to High Speed mode...

an easy to use and useful feature of the Samsung drive..

Again, with the same media we ran the Nero DriveSpeed Utility to confirm the changes...

That covers the expert features for the Samsung drive. Now let us move on to the last page, the conclusion.