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| Posted by | Dennis |
| Posted on | 09/08/03 16:31 |
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Review: Sanyo CRD-BPDV2
(DVD±RW) Reviewer: Dennis Provided by: Sanyo Firmware: 2.07/2.09 Manufactured: May 2003 FCC ID: JBQCDR031 |
During last March's CeBIT conference held in Germany, the Japanese Sanyo company revealed their very first DVD-recorder to the public. The specifications of this DVD-recorder, model CRD-BPDV2, were already released in September of 2002 but since then there have been some speculations of what kind of speeds the CRD-BPDV2 would support. The drive was first revealed as a 4x DVD±R(W) recorder with HD-BURN (we'll get back to this technique later on in this review) writing/reading support at speeds of 36x/80x. The specifications were however later lowered to 4x DVD+R, 2.4x DVD+RW and HD-BURN write/read speeds of 24x/72x.
Today we can finally reveal the complete specifications of
Sanyo's first DVD-recorder as we have received a sample CRD-BPDV2 drive from
Sanyo Japan. In short we can say that our sample drive supports 4x DVD+R,
4x DVD-R, 2.4x DVD+RW, 2x DVD-RW, 24x CD-R and last
but not least, 10x CD-RW recording. The drive's read speeds are rated as
12x DVD-ROM and 40x CD-ROM.
In this review we'll of course put the drive to our usual tests and see how it compares to the competition. Because the drive is a sample drive there was no software delivered with the drive and we can thus only review the hardware itself. This is no problem since the hardware itself is interesting enough with techniques on board such as HD-BURN. Read on to find out what we have to say about this drive!
Test Machine:
For the tests we'll be using the following configuration:
Hardware:- Motherboard: GigaByte GA-7VAXP
- Processor: AMD AthlonXP 2100+
- RAM: 512MB (PC2700)
- GFX: ASUS V8200 (GeForce 3 Ti200)
- Hard Disks: DiamondMax 40/30GB (7200rpm)
The Sanyo CRD-BPDV2 drive was hooked up as Master to the (onboard) secondary IDE-controller and identifies itself as "SANYO CRD-BPDV2". DMA (Direct Memory Access) was enabled and autorun was disabled for every device.
Used Software:
The Windows XP Professional operating system is installed on our test machine. We'll be using the following software to perform the various tests. Notice that we used a preview version of the Nero 6 software. You can check out the complete preview here.
On the next page of our review we'll take a look at the drive itself, its specifications and features.
Conclusion
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