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Hi all, I was going to post this under the 'Media' subforum but I think that section may be locked. Getting a spindle of Made in Singapore Verbatim DVD+R double layers have been difficult (or expensive) so I settled for Made-in-India ones made by MoserBaer. The test result from DVDInfoPro didn't look too bad. DVD test drive: Pioneer 107D Burner: LG GSA-H22L. Burned at 2.4 X Software: Imageburn (great app, by the way) See here or attachment: http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj92/el...pg?t=1197028349 PIF peak of 7, PI peak of 86....and total PI errors under 100,000. I just started reading about PIPO errors but this doesn't look too bad, definitely serviceable though not perfect. I've made some dual layer burns and the result aren't always consistent though, some have a big spike just once right at the end (7GB, 8GB mark), and some have spikes near the layer change area. I tested some of my old DVD-R discs (from past years) and they've got massive PI and PIF spikes on them, but they still verified okay when I made the burn, and could be read fine today. So, would these spikes affect anything else or will they just slow down the read speed at certain points? Last question: Does the quality of the test drive might affect the result shown on DVDInfoPro or other benchmark program? Would I get a 'better' result if I use a BenQ or LiteOn drive for testing? Cheers

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=2310 I think the above is the only media-test thread for Verbatim +R DL? It looks good (from a n00b point of view, mine) ..... all of them showed no major PIF spikes. But the thread didn't say if they were Singapore Verbatims or Indian ones? I did a PI/PO test with DVDInfoPro on my Made in India Verbatims and noticed: I burnt 2 discs, both at 2.4x, both with the same drive, but different program 1. The one with CloneCD 5.3.1.0 made a lot of error spikes (max PIF spike was about 200) 2. One burnt with Nero 6.6.15 had a max PIF spike of about 10 Interesting..........

Have been using Verbatim DVD+DR DL made in India here and made about 25 discs, no problems. Writers used are: LG GSA-H22L and Pioneer 212D SATA drive. Can anyone link me to some articles stating that the Verbatims made in India really are inferior? If there's one with hard numbers/facts that would be better. Are they inferior in that they often fail during the burn or are they failing at a later date? The reason I asked is that one moderator from another disc-burning site was praising the "Made in Singapore" stuff like it was gospel, his fear of anything "not made in Singapore" is similar to those people who are very afraid of germs. Very eccentric. He kept repeating this stuff in most of his posts. DC, did you find out whether it was your drive or the disc that caused the problem? To be honest I'm disappointed at the general trend that DVD and CD writer drives don't seem to last very long. I had a highly recommended Liteon CD Writer failed after about 1.5 years, although it wasn't used heavily. It still reads well, but any CD it made had a fatal CRC error which made them useless.