Samsung TS-H552 DL Recorder - Page 11

DVD Recording Tests

- Writing Performance

The Samsung TS-H552 supports 16X for DVD+R, 12X for DVD-R, 4X for DVD±RW and 2.4X for DVD+R9.

Nero Burning Rom reported speeds are shown below, after inserting a Mitsubishi Chemicals DVD+R 16X certified disc.

We used CD-DVD Speed with DVD-R and DVD+R media, in order to check the writing strategy for each media. Click on the screenshots below for a complete CDSpeed graph.

• DVD+R media @ 16X

• DVD+R media @ 12X

• DVD+R media @ 8X

• DVD-R media @ 12X

We tried many different brands of DVD-R media, certified for 8X which can be burned up to 12X or even 16X with other recorders but none of them allowed 12X writing with the Samsung burner.

• DVD-R media @ 8X

- Burning Tests

We burned 4315MB of data on various DVD±R, DVD±RW media. We used the maximum allowed writing speed for each disc.

• DVD+R media

Best performance came with Mitsubishi Chemicals media at 16X, which was the only one that allowed 16X writing. CMC Magnetics and Traxdata 16X media allowed up to 12X while Philips 16X only 4X. The writing times were slighty increased for all speeds. In the case of BeAll media, the time of 12:41 minutes indicates that the drive slowed down while recording in order to prevent us from creating a coaster.

• DVD-R media

Unfortunately, as we stated above, we didn't manage to test the drive at 12X for the DVD-R format. According to the supported media list for this format, Mitsubishi Chemicals media with ID code MCC 02RG20 should be burned at 12X, but this was not confirmed and Nero reported 8X. DVD-R media certified for 16X are not currently available, not even for us :-)

- Comparison with other drives

Below are summarized the maximum speeds for each media format for each of our three drives.

- DVD Overburning Tests

Using Nero CD-DVD Speed, we tested to see if the drive is capable of overburning on DVD+R and DVD-R media. Unfortunately, this feature is not included in the drive's advanced specs.

• DVD-R media

• DVD+R media

- DVD+MRW Tests

The drive doesn't support the Mount Rainier feature.