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 BitSetting (BookType DVD-ROM) on DVD+R DL.
• Supports Disc Quality Scanning with CD-Speed.

Negative:

• Some problems with writing quality with our tested DVD+R DL media
• 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.

Conclusion:

Let us summarize the most important positive and negative points below:

The Pioneer DVR-112D is one of the fastest drive’s we have tested here on CD Freaks as far as writing DVD media is concerned.

The Pioneer DVR-112D 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 very good/excellent, The Pioneer DVR-112D 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.

There are not many negative things to say about the Pioneer DVR-112D. 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-112D burned some DVD+R media at lower than its rated speed with Pioneer preferring good 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-112D is fast and burns most media with very good quality”.

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