Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray Burner Preview

DVD+R/-R Double Layer writing speed and compatibility:

The Pioneer BDR-101A supports the DVD+R DL/-R DL standard for writing Double Layer/Dual Layer discs with a size around 8.5 GB at a writing speed of 2.4x/2x.

For this test, we simply wrote the discs with CD-Speed’s ‘create data disc” function. We then tested the created discs on the Lite-On SHW-16H5S using KProbe and the NEC ND-4570A along with CD-Speed for our read-back tests.

DVD+R DL:

Verbatim 2.4x ‘“ Manufactured by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media. (Thanks to Verbatim for sending us this media).

The result is ok.

DVD-R DL

As mentioned at the top of this page, the Pioneer BDR-101A supports the DVD-R DL standard at 2x.

For this test, we simply wrote the discs with CD-Speed’s ‘create data disc” function. We then tested the created discs on the Lite-On SHW-16H5S using KProbe and the NEC ND-4570A along with CD-Speed for our read-back tests.

This media is manufactured by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media. (Thanks to SVP UK for sending us this media).

The PI and PIF errors are out of specification at the layer break, however our read-back test is perfect. The result is ok.

Summary: Write quality is fairly good, but once again could be improved.

This concludes our Pioneer BDR-101A preview, let’s head on to the last page to read our conclusion…