Another blog entry only one day after this one?
Yesterday I posted about a nameless DVD±RW drive, thinking it was just some average old garbage writer. @Alexander1970 knew better and started searching for the thing. In fact it is an Optorite brand drive, model DD0203. I've sent Alex the model number this morning and he started searching. Thinking he could never find anything about this old and worthless writer, which already has the word "Generic" in the name, I left and came back several hours later… just to find out that Alex had achieved a miracle by finding something about this drive. While mine doesn't identify as Optorite brand, it is in fact the same hardware as the one mentioned in the test Alex had found:
https://www.cdrinfo.com/d7/content/optorite-dd0203-dvd±rw
What immediately caught my eye on this test was the phrase HD-Burn (which I mentioned yesterday in a comment as an obscure, hard to find, rare Sanyo invention).
@Alexander1970 you are absolutely unparalleled! I had no idea what little treasure I had picked up on Saturday. Should this no-name, no-brand, generic drive really contain the rare HD-Burn functionality? Yes it does and it works! Double the space on a standard CD-R. Strangely the drive is completely unable to read CD-R created with Plextor GigaRec (which in level 1.4 is comparable to HD-Burn – without the different encoding/smaller error correction).
HD-Burn goes way beyond what Plextor GigaRec can achieve… but… the function is of no practical use, as it has never seen any distribution in stand-alone DVD players or the like. It could have been a low cost alternative when DVD burners and blanks were still very expensive, but it disappeared in obscurity. GigaRec discs – shorter pits but normal CD encoding – are somewhat compatible to normal players (at least in level 1.2 and 1.3 it gives acceptable results).
The disc I've just burned will not work in any other device I own – including all PC drives.
As so often:
Thank you Alex!!
I guess it is pretty obvious that I'm not gonna tinker around with this drive. Have to continue my search for worthless, slow writers.
Yesterday I posted about a nameless DVD±RW drive, thinking it was just some average old garbage writer. @Alexander1970 knew better and started searching for the thing. In fact it is an Optorite brand drive, model DD0203. I've sent Alex the model number this morning and he started searching. Thinking he could never find anything about this old and worthless writer, which already has the word "Generic" in the name, I left and came back several hours later… just to find out that Alex had achieved a miracle by finding something about this drive. While mine doesn't identify as Optorite brand, it is in fact the same hardware as the one mentioned in the test Alex had found:
https://www.cdrinfo.com/d7/content/optorite-dd0203-dvd±rw
What immediately caught my eye on this test was the phrase HD-Burn (which I mentioned yesterday in a comment as an obscure, hard to find, rare Sanyo invention).
@Alexander1970 you are absolutely unparalleled! I had no idea what little treasure I had picked up on Saturday. Should this no-name, no-brand, generic drive really contain the rare HD-Burn functionality? Yes it does and it works! Double the space on a standard CD-R. Strangely the drive is completely unable to read CD-R created with Plextor GigaRec (which in level 1.4 is comparable to HD-Burn – without the different encoding/smaller error correction).
HD-Burn goes way beyond what Plextor GigaRec can achieve… but… the function is of no practical use, as it has never seen any distribution in stand-alone DVD players or the like. It could have been a low cost alternative when DVD burners and blanks were still very expensive, but it disappeared in obscurity. GigaRec discs – shorter pits but normal CD encoding – are somewhat compatible to normal players (at least in level 1.2 and 1.3 it gives acceptable results).
The disc I've just burned will not work in any other device I own – including all PC drives.
As so often:
Thank you Alex!!
I guess it is pretty obvious that I'm not gonna tinker around with this drive. Have to continue my search for worthless, slow writers.
