![]() ![]() These region codes prevent a DVD movie made for one region from playing in a machine with a DVD region code of another. You see, the Motion picture studios wanted to control the release of movies around the world, so they created DVD region codes. Pioneer also decided to ship both of the drives region locked by default. NOTE: The drive rating in CD Tach and DVD Tach benchmarks are given as a realistic calculation of the transfer rate using a weighted average of typical use, so the total score is taken from 60% of the inside score plus 30% of the middle score plus 10% of the outside score.īolded numbers denote best overall score for that specific benchmark. The different areas of the disc that these speed drops occur explain the slot drive’s higher drive rating of 6.2x and the tray drive’s higher maximum read speed of 13MB/sec. The tray version, the blue line, drops its speed down at the 2.3GB range and doesn’t fully recover its previous speed of 10MB/sec until the 3.6GB region of the disc. The slot version, the red line, drops its speed at the 2.9GB region and doesn’t recover until it’s almost at the 4.2GB region, which is almost at the end of the disc. We’ll try to explain using the chart above (keep in mind that a full DVD disc is 4.7GB in size and the read speeds should be at a steady incline across the whole disc). ![]() Throughputs of both drives consistently dropped by 2MB/sec during the sequential read test in the middle regions of the disc. ![]() The only major problem found were is unstable reads when reading DVD discs. They’ll be offering bare drives for $100 very shortly. The sure thing is going to cost you about $130, but you’ll be getting CyberLink’s PowerDVD decoding software along with it. Also, the Pioneer drive hits the street at around $100, but be careful as sites and retailers are quickly running out of back stock. ESBUY.COM may be your sure thing since they are the distributor of ALL of these Pioneer drives and Guarantee they’ll be in stock. While other drive manufacturers like Sony, Toshiba and LG are just now unveiling their mighty 8X DVD-ROM drives, only Pioneer and Acer are hitting the coveted 10X speed. And with the announcement of a consumer DVD recorder, they’re pushing the industry again. They are not only the first to market with a 10x DVD-ROM drive (in no less than two flavors – a slot-load and a tray-load version), they are the only company making a rewritable drive that DVD developers can test their titles with (we refer to the DVR-S201 DVD Rewritable drive, which is the only one capable of burning DVD discs readable in every existing DVD-ROM drive and consumer DVD player on the market). Pioneer is clearly the king of the DVD Mountain. ![]()
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