Sony BWU-200S Blu-ray Rewritable Drive Review

DVD-R media compatibility and write quality

As with the +R media, for these tests we will be using the Lite-On DH20A3P  drives along with Nero’s CD-DVDspeed to measure the disc quality. We will also be using the BenQ DW1650 along with Nero CD-DVDSpeed for our read-back tests.

Here is what we discovered:

Disc Quality Scan at 4X with Lite-on Drive

TRT with BenQ DW-1650

A dip in the TRT at the 1.4 mark; overall quality was good with this media.

Disc Quality Scan at 4X with Lite-on Drive

TRT with BenQ DW-1650

Good results with this Phillips media.

Disc Quality Scan at 4X with Lite-on Drive

TRT with BenQ DW-1650

As we can see, there were some PIF spikes, however, the TRT reflects a smooth read back curve when burned at 16X.

Disc Quality Scan at 4X with Lite-on Drive

TRT with BenQ DW-1650

The Sony BWU-200S performed very well with this media from Verbatim.

Disc Quality Scan at 4X with Lite-on Drive

TRT with BenQ DW-1650

The Sony BWU-200S did very good, burning this Taiyo Yuden 8X media.

Disc Quality Scan at 4X with Lite-on Drive

TRT with BenQ DW-1650

A block of PIF which coincides with the dip in the TRT; still overall an OK burn with this Verbatim 8X media.

DVD-RW media compatibility and write quality

We used the same test procedures as in our DVD-R tests.

Here are our results.

Disc Quality Scan at 4X with Lite-on Drive

TRT with BenQ DW-1650

High spike of (9) on PIF, otherwise the Sony BWU-200S would have done a much better job with this media.

Summary

Overall, the Sony BWU-200S did a good job with our DVD-R/RW test media; we would have liked to have seen better performance with our DVD-RW test media.

Let’s head on to the next page where we will test DVD R DL writing performance and quality……