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| Posted by | Wendy Collins |
| Posted on | 02/12/05 00:26 |
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Positive:
- Excellent write quality with CD-R media
- Excellent write quality with most DVD±R media
- Supports DVD-RAM read and write at 5x
- Supports CD-RW writing at 32x
- Supports DVD+RW/-RW at 8x/6x
- Supports DVD+R DL/-R DL at 8x/8x writing speed
- Can write DVD+R DL certified media at higher speed
- Can write selected DVD±R media at higher than its rated speed
- Supports auto bitsetting for DVD+R DL (booktype to DVD-ROM)
- Can read Pressed DVD-ROM/DVD-Video SL/DL at 16x/12x
- 'Two Sheep" writer
- Supports DAO-RAW writing
- Supports Mini DVD-R/RW discs
- Good build quality
Negative:
- Does not support Mt. Rainier
- Read speed is locked at 12x for DVD±R media
- Media compatibility on CD-R/ DVD±R could be improved
- Some CD-R/DVD±R discs burn slower than their rated speed
- Some issues with 'copy on the fly" with CD Audio extraction
- Single colored LED for read/write
- Read performance in general is a bit slow by today's standards
- No bitsetting support on +R/RW media (to set booktype DVD-ROM)
Conclusion:
Let us summarize the most important positive and negative points below:
The main positive points: The Pioneer DVR-110 can write CD-R with exceptional quality and ranks the Pioneer DVR-110 among the very best for CD-R writing. The Pioneer DVR-110 can also write DVD±R media with excellent quality, with most of our tested media returning excellent results. We were very impressed with the Pioneer DVR-110 in this department.
The inclusion of support for the DVD-RAM format with reading and writing at up to 5x is very useful feature, and broadens the drive's appeal. The DVD-RAM format is becoming more popular as read and write speeds increase.
Build quality with the Pioneer DVR-110 is very good. The drive looks and feels solidly built, with smooth CD/DVD drawer eject and close, the whole package just feels well made.
The Pioneer DVR-110 also runs very quietly, even at speeds up to its maximum quoted 16x, the drive still remained quiet and unobtrusive. The Pioneer DVR-110 also runs cool, this might be important in a hot climate or a cramped PC case.
The main negative points: There are not many negative things to report about the Pioneer DVR-110. Media compatibility with CD-R and DVD±R could be better, with some of the discs in our tests being burned slower than there rated speed.
Reading performance overall could be better. We would like to see DVD recordable media being read at 16x for example.
The Pioneer DVR-110 had problems with our DAE tests, with CD-Speed reporting the drive as to slow for 'on the Fly" copying at speeds beyond 4x.
The Pioneer over-burn performance is something else we would like to see improved, fully supporting 900MB (100 minute) CD-R media at its full length would be a welcome inclusion. Then again, the Pioneer DVR-110 is a DVD burner and perhaps a DVD recordable media would be more appropriate if extra storage capacity is required.
To sum it all up, this is what we would say: 'The Pioneer DVR-110's writing quality is excellent and ranks among the very best". This is why most of us buy DVD burners. With this in mind, we decided to award the Pioneer DVR-110 our CD Freaks 'Safe Buy" award.
By using our price grabber feature cdfreaks.pricegrabber we found the Pioneer DVR-110 listed at $42.00 (November 2005).
You may comment on this review below or in this forum thread
Thanks to:
Bell Technology spol s.r.o. - Czech Republic for providing the media used in this review.
SVP
Communications- The United
Kingdom for providing the media used in this review.
Conrexx Technology B.V./RITEK Europe - The Netherlands for providing the media used in this
review.
Medea International - United Kingdom for providing the media used in this review
Ricoh Europe - For providing the media used in this review.
E-Net Distribution - United Kingdom for providing the media used in this review.
Verbatim - Germany and United Kingdom for providing the media used in this review.
For providing the Memorex media used in this review. Memorex is one of the largest providers of all types of media for larger parts of the world.
A nice drive - nothing new
Thank you for your obviously informed opinion.
It's a DVD burner, what did one expect it to look like? Paris Hilton perhaps?
[edited by Dee-27 on 03.12.2005 17:34]
[edited by Dee-27 on 03.12.2005 17:42]
Why should "geeks beware"? I don't see how the pioneer dvr110 review should concern people who bite the heads off live chickens.
Doesn't matter since crossflashing wer mad epossible.
More important is the line "Made in ****".
I bought this DVD burner at EZBuy Club for around $40. Also they have it in black! 
Could not the web master go back to school or at least by a good CSS - XHTML book and put a proper printer version of the article and all other articles and reviews up on this site?!
It is tough for many of us to read such a long article online and many I know would love a WORKING print option other than just printing one pasgte at a time.
Many thanks otherwise.
On IE 6.02 + you can print some of the individual pages but not the whole article or review.
Please fix this to make and otherwise great site even better.
Many thanks for Dee's fabulous effort at dissecting this drive.
I now have a better appreciation of the printing problems for these reviews too as each section is between 11 and 28 pages long wit hteh standard formating, making for over 100 + pages to print the whole thing!
As a suggestion have you thought about making these reviews into PDFs for download and printing aming for significantly smaller page numbers.
You might even put all the text and tablular data in a sparate PDF and the graphics in another.
Some such option would be appreciated.
Cheers!
Dee-27, can you help us out on this one? Your cdfreaks.pricegrabber link only points to DVR-110D retailers (some retailers call the burner the "DVR-110", but when you look at the details, it's always the DVR-110D). Too bad Pioneer hadn't just gone to DVR-110E or something to reduce confusion.
DVR-110D, DVR-R100 (DVD-RAM read only)
DVR-110, DVR A10 (DVD-RAM read and write)
I have no idea why the DVR-110 is hard to find in the USA.
There is good stocks of this drive in Europe.
Then after some hunting around on other forums, I finally figured it out: ASUS re-brands the Pioneer DVR-110 as the ASUS DRW-1608P2S (and also re-brands the Pioneer DVR-110D as the ASUS DRW-1608P2). So it appears that Pioneer doesn't market it directly in the US, letting ASUS do that. It's the same drive, as it can be flashed with the exact same Pioneer firmware updates, and it explicitly advertises the DVD-RAM 5X write capability. I found it at NewEgg.com as low as $42 US.
However, I'm now comparing the Pioneer with the LG 4167B, which is very similar in nearly every way in terms of features, performance and price.
My goal is purely DVD data backup, and comparing the reviews here on CDfreaks, and also on other sites, everyone consistently says that the LG 4167B is slightly better than the Pioneer from a writing compatibility standpoint (and seemed about the same good quailty on writing).
And both drives seem to work fine on Macs, which is what I have. I had initially leaned toward the Pioneer since most Macs ship with Pioneer, but Mac OS X 10.3.9 doesn't natively support this particular Pioneer. Both work fine with patchburn, so no real advantage for Pioneer vs. LG.
Anybody have a strong opinion either way between the "Pioneer DVR-110/ASUS DRW-1608P2S" and the "LG 4167B", when the goal is purely DVD backup (ie. don't care about read speeds nor DL, etc.)?
I just downloaded "game cloner ver 1.20" to back up my games but when I run the software it come up on the screen "Burner find, but is invalid.
I have a pioneer dvd-rw dvr110. Can anyone help.
Mic
i just buy EMTEC DVD-RW 4.7go //120min//4x
and my DVR-110 doesn't reconize this DVD
It ok with Verbatim DVD-RW 6X
if you have any explication
Thanks a Lot
Philippe (from France)
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