Pioneer's DVR-A08XLA Jumps to 4x Dual Layer Speeds

Test Configuration

This is how the test phases proceeded:

Reading

• CD
• Transfer rateAccess timeAudio extraction
• DVD
• Single layer transfer rateDual layer transfer rate

Burning

• CD
• CD-RCD-RW
• DVD
• DVD-R / DVD+RDVD-RW / DVD+RWDual layer

The media we used were DVD+/-R 8x manufactured by hp, Imation, TDK, Traxdata, Memorex and Verbatim, as well as DVD+/-RW made by Imation and Verbatim.

For the dual-layer media, we used devices from Verbatim and Traxdata.