Hi
Your incredible Rasczak, you are trying to discredit me while making other readers think you are the number one authority on DVD Recording by telling people I have a DVD-RW recorder and so I am biased and must be making it all up. So we assume then that you do not own a DVD-RAM recorder and are completely neutral (A case of the pot calling the kettle black).
No I have no intentions on upgrading, what I have now fills my needs perfectly.
I am not saying anything, those were quotes from the links I gave. New Pioneer drives support defect management, they also support methods of writing to RW that allow it to perform better. Why do the two things have to be linked or the same thing? It is quite clear to me.
Mmm, the Pioneer reps I have spoken to invariably get things wrong, they are salesmen, not technicians designing the things!
Which was one of the points I was making. Who needs 100,000 rewrites? The only reason Panasonic went the extra mile in adding more layers to the spec to increase the number of rewrites was due to DVD-RAM being targeted at commercial uses when it first arrived, not so Aunt Jean can record 200,000 hours of Eastenders before needing to buy a new disc (assuming 2 hour rate). I doubt any Panasonic unit is expected to last as long as 400,000 hours of use to use up a whole disc in this way! (200,000 hours to record and 200,000 hours to watch back). This is around 20 years of continuous television watching!!! A DVD-RW disc assuming the old engine and only 1000 rewrites is more than adequate for the majority of people!
All I am saying is that DVD-RAM having a life of 100,000, while sounding good, isnt a reason to buy DVD-RAM, unless you are planning to live for ever watching TV
Trade magazines, why on earth would they quote the drive code as DVR-A05, this is the retail drive code for the boxed writer that comes with software etc. How is that at all relevent to a set-top recorder? Besides internally the drives are not the same as the PC Drive, they are phyiscally different and can not be swapped out. They may be based on IDE/ATAPI but have smaller ribbon cable connections and different fan/fitler arrangements. The drive code would never be the same as the PC drive.
Regards
Philip
I think you'll find what I say is bang on - and of course your not exactly without bias are you? As a purchaser of the DVDR7000 (Pioneer's one and only contribution to UK DVDR for the last 2 years!). I assume you'll be upgrading your recorder when the Pioneer's come along? Preferrably to something that can actually do RGB in (unlike the DVDR7000)?
Your incredible Rasczak, you are trying to discredit me while making other readers think you are the number one authority on DVD Recording by telling people I have a DVD-RW recorder and so I am biased and must be making it all up. So we assume then that you do not own a DVD-RAM recorder and are completely neutral (A case of the pot calling the kettle black).
No I have no intentions on upgrading, what I have now fills my needs perfectly.
Ok - one second your saying that the Pioneer A06 "utilizes a sequence that enables writing under the best conditions at all times" and now your saying that is entirely seperate from the claim of an increased "re-writing performance"? What then causes this claim? Magic? Or the defect management chip as part of the A06 hardware?
I am not saying anything, those were quotes from the links I gave. New Pioneer drives support defect management, they also support methods of writing to RW that allow it to perform better. Why do the two things have to be linked or the same thing? It is quite clear to me.
Having spoken to the UK Pioneer rep I know the UK 310 is based on the A05 without a shadow of a doubt.
Mmm, the Pioneer reps I have spoken to invariably get things wrong, they are salesmen, not technicians designing the things!
I don't think I've ever argued this. I fully accept as DVD-RAM came first (for PCs anyway) it is based on older technology. But that doesn't mean it's not sound which is why is has so many more read/writes.
Which was one of the points I was making. Who needs 100,000 rewrites? The only reason Panasonic went the extra mile in adding more layers to the spec to increase the number of rewrites was due to DVD-RAM being targeted at commercial uses when it first arrived, not so Aunt Jean can record 200,000 hours of Eastenders before needing to buy a new disc (assuming 2 hour rate). I doubt any Panasonic unit is expected to last as long as 400,000 hours of use to use up a whole disc in this way! (200,000 hours to record and 200,000 hours to watch back). This is around 20 years of continuous television watching!!! A DVD-RW disc assuming the old engine and only 1000 rewrites is more than adequate for the majority of people!
All I am saying is that DVD-RAM having a life of 100,000, while sounding good, isnt a reason to buy DVD-RAM, unless you are planning to live for ever watching TV
Check the specs in the trade magazines as well and you'll find the drive code is "DVR-A05".
Trade magazines, why on earth would they quote the drive code as DVR-A05, this is the retail drive code for the boxed writer that comes with software etc. How is that at all relevent to a set-top recorder? Besides internally the drives are not the same as the PC Drive, they are phyiscally different and can not be swapped out. They may be based on IDE/ATAPI but have smaller ribbon cable connections and different fan/fitler arrangements. The drive code would never be the same as the PC drive.
Regards
Philip