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Writing Data CD-R/RW discs:

The specifications state that the drive should be able to write CD-Rs at 40x and CD-RWs at 32x:

The Pioneer DVR-110D uses CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) to write CD-R's at 40x. This gives an average writing speed of 30.09x and a writing time of 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

The Pioneer DVR-110D uses Z-CLV, (Zone-Constant Linear Velocity) to write CD-RWs at 32x. The average speed is 24.90x and total writing time is 3 minutes and 48 seconds.

In this first look, we did not include any quality scans of the CD-R/RW discs.

DVD-Writing performance:

The specifications of this drive tell us that it should write DVD±R DL at 8x, DVD±R at 16x and DVD+RW/-RW at 8x/6x.

DVD+R at 16x:

The Pioneer DVR-110D uses CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) to write DVD+R at 16x. This gives an average writing speed of 11.61x and a writing time of 6 minutes and 12 seconds.

Above a KProbe quality scan of the Sony DVD+R 16x disc, and the result is very good.

Verbatim 16x DVD+R media, average writing speed of 11.62x, and a writing time of 6 minutes and 17 seconds.

Excellent KProbe result.

DVD+RW at 8x:

The Pioneer DVR-110D did not support the 2 different 8x DVD+RW media at 8x that we have for testing purpose at our review-lab.

DVD-R at 16x:

The Pioneer DVR-110D uses CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) to write DVD-R at 16x. This gives an average writing speed of 11.51x, and a writing time of 6 minutes and 11 seconds.

As the KProbe results show, there are some higher PI spikes at the end of the disc, but the result is good.

Verbatim 16x DVD-R media - average writing speed of 11.56x, and a writing time of 6 minutes and 4 seconds.

The Kprobe result is OK, but somehow we expected this media to be of 'better" quality.

DVD-RW at 6x:

The Pioneer DVR-110D uses CLV (Constant Linear Velocity) to write DVD-RW at 6x. The average speed is 6.01x and total writing time is 10 minutes and 21 seconds.

The Kprobe result is excellent!

DVD+R DL at 8x:

The Pioneer DVR-110D uses Z-CLV, (Zone-Constant Linear Velocity) to write DVD+R DL at 8x. This gives an average writing speed of 6.84x, and a writing time of 17 minutes and 59 seconds.

The Verbatim 2.4x DVD+R DL disc burned at 8x got a quality score of 93.

DVD-R DL at 8x:

The Pioneer DVR-110D uses Z-CLV, (Zone-Constant Linear Velocity) to write DVD+R DL at 8x. This gives an average writing speed of 6.84x, and a writing time of 17 minutes and 59 seconds.

The Verbatim 4x DVD-R DL disc burned at 8x got a quality score of 95.