ForumPioneer DVR-112 detail information
| Posted by | Wendy Collins |
| Posted on | 24/03/07 17:58 |
| Manufacturer | Pioneer |
| Product | Pioneer DVR-112 |
| Description | 18x DVD burner supporting DVD-RAM and 10x DVD DL writing speed |
| Awards |
Editor's Choice Award |
Positive:
- Excellent/very good CD-R/RW writing quality and compatibility.
- Excellent/very good DVD±R/RW writing quality.
- Excellent/Very good DVD±R DL writing quality and media compatibility.
- Can burn selected DVD±R/DL media faster than its rated speed.
- Reads pressed DVD Video SL/DL at 16x/12x
- Supports DVD-RAM read/write at 12x speed.
- Supports BitSetting (BookType DVD-ROM) on DVD+R DL.
- Supports Disc Quality Scanning with CD-Speed.
- Can read/write MINI DVD
Negative:
- Can only read DVD±R/RW media at 12x/8x.
- Doesn’t support BitSetting for DVD+R/RW
- Single coloured LED for read/write.
- Some DVD±R media was written slower than its rated speed.
- Cannot over-burn CD-R media or read/write 100 minute CD-R media.
Conclusion:
Let us summarize the most important positive and negative points below:
The main positive points:
The Pioneer DVR-112 is one of the fastest drive’s we have tested here on CD Freaks as far as writing DVD media is concerned. Being a so called multi-drive, the Pioneer DVR-112 supports all of the currently popular CD/DVD formats including DVD-RAM.
The Pioneer DVR-112 was able to burn all our tested CD-R/RW media with excellent/very good quality and media compatibility was also very good.
DVD±R/RW writing quality was also of a very high standard and on most media excellent, the Pioneer DVR-112 coping with some difficult to handle media extremely well. The Pioneer DVR-112 was also able to burn selected DVD±R media at faster than its rated speed, and overall burning performance with DVD±R media was very good indeed. Recording some of the fastest write times we have seen.
The Pioneer DVR-112 also proved to be a good performer with DVD-RAM media, again recording some very fast write times with our tested 12x DVD-RAM media.
The Pioneer DVR-112 was very impressive when writing to DVD DL media. Not only was the performance excellent, recording some of the fastest burn times we have seen, but also the writing quality on our tested media was very impressive.
The main negative points:
There are not many negative things to say about the Pioneer DVR-112. The drive is not the fastest reader in the world for recordable media, but during our reading tests it did prove reliable.
The Pioneer DVR-112 did not perform well in our audio extraction test, the drive proving to slow for copy on the fly. However, extraction quality was excellent.
The Pioneer DVR-112 also had some problems with over-burning and reading 100 minute CD-R. This is an area which could be improved.
The Pioneer DVR-112 burned some DVD±R media at lower than its rated speed. I am however hesitant to call this a negative point. The media burned at lower than its rated speed has proven to be troublesome when burned on other DVD Writers. So hats off to Pioneer for being brave enough to put writing quality before outright burning speed.
We would also like to see different coloured LED’s being used for read/write.
To sum up, this is what we would say:
“The Pioneer DVR-112 is fast, has a good feature set and burns media with excellent/very good quality. An excellent effort from Pioneer”
We were so impressed by the Pioneer DVR-112 burning quality; we decided to award the drive our CD Freaks “Editor’s Choice Award”.
By using our price grabber feature cdfreaks.pricegrabber we were unable to find a price listing for the drive.
You may comment on this review below or in this forum thread.
Thanks to:
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Plextor SA/NV (B) for providing the Plextor media used in this review.
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Conrexx Technology B.V./RITEK Europe – The Netherlands for providing the media used in this review.
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Daxon Technology Inc – Taiwan for providing the BenQ media used in this article.
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Medea International – United Kingdom for providing the media used in this review.
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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.
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Ricoh Europe – For providing the media used in this review.
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SVP Communication – The United Kingdom for providing the media used in this review.
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Verbatim - United Kingdom for providing the media used in this review. |
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Pleomax for providing the media used in this review. |
Protected audio CD's are not available in my location. Maybe you can send me some to test
Doesn't screenshot show contrary(C2 - no, cache - yes)? Or it is wrong screenshot?
http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t319198.html
Please update the review, because it's misleading.
The fact is they do support PI/PIF scanning just like the Pioneer drives do and that is all that is claimed in the review.
In addition huge spikes (up to PIE > 17 000) are often present on the graphs.
Your answer reminds me an old story with hotel reservation in India. If you just reserve a room with aircond there is a great chance that it will not working. In fact you must always precise "with working aircond" while booking.
I refolmulate me request. Could you please precise in the review that although the error reporting is indeed working, but the PIE level always exeeds the DVD+/-R specs. That is not the case with Lite-on, BENQ, NEC and Plextor.
This is not the case, BenQ and NEC drives often report out of spec scans on perfectly good burns. The Pioneer scan in the review is within specifcation.
I guarantee if you buy this, you will have lazer failiure in months, you have been warned.
A week later bought 2 Pioneer DVR-112D's from NewEgg, both of them are still working perfectly since March 2007, nothing but smooth sailing.
Also, overall the best DVD burner I've owned, next to the BenQ 1640...^_^
It totally ignores the lack of write quality as revealed in the well-known German computer magazine "c't" issue 2007/11 p. 122 which affects not only the Pioneer DVR-112 but a couple of new competitors drives as well.
Compared to an old test where they tested the DVR-111 (which I own) the write quality of the DVR-111 exceeded the write quality of the DVR-112 except for CD-R where the DVR-112 was better.
If these problems are not firmware based I would rather buy a DVR-111 again than a DVR-112.
c't assumes that the enourmous price pressure may have caused the degraded write quality with those new drives (not only Pioneer!) in their test.
I'm looking for some 110's or even 111's to replace them with.
Might try lite-on's instead next batch. Nightmare for me as a supplier. Cost me heaps ... just replacing discs alone.
No problem with any other type of disc. Awaiting advice from Pioneer.
Had 111D before this burner, excellent performer but couldn't write to dvd-ram.
By the way I'm going to buy another brand recorder for fail safe. Plextor - King of the quality? Well yes, but as well king of short life and failures! My opinion: never again!
I wonder what should I buy for second (backup-reserve) recorder? I was just thinking about Pioneer, while reading this review, when I read in the previous comments that they live short too. What a shame on Pioneer!
Gonna replace both of these with some newer DVR-115's
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