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| DVD Burner - NEC - ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 I received the drive when it was first out in the US market: Friday, June 10, 2005. The drive is Made in Malaysia, May 2005 and comes with stock fw 1.01. Flashed with Liggy & Dee firmware 1.W4. It is my habit to test a drive with all my media before I conclude something. Tests include 11 DVD+Rs, 11 DVD-Rs, 1 DVD+R DL, 1 DVD+RW, 1 CD-R, pressed DVD DL read speed and overburn test. Lets see how the NEC ND-3540A performs on 25 different media.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 MCC004 16x DVD+R burned @16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Verbatim DVD+R 25pack (Made in Taiwan). Very good quality, as good as LG 4163/BenQ 1620/Plextor 716A.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 CMCMAG.M01 16x DVD+R burned @16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Memorex DVD+R 25pack. Very good. Slightly better than LG 4163/BenQ 1620 --less PIF errors.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 PHILIPSC16 16x DVD+R burned @16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Memorex DVD+R 50pack (Made in Taiwan). AOPC kicks in at the end. Not so good although within limits. BenQ 1620/LG 4163/Plextor 716A produce similar quality.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 RICOHJPNR03 16x DVD+R burned @16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Memorex DVD+R 25pack. Very good burn.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 Taiyo Yuden YUDEN000T02 8x DVD+R burned @16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Sony/Fuji/TDK/OEM DVD+R 50pack Made in Japan. I did several burns on this media and this is the best I can get. Good quality but LG/BenQ/Plextor can do better.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 Taiyo Yuden YUDEN000T02 8x DVD+R burned @12x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Sony/Fuji/TDK/OEM DVD+R 50pack Made in Japan. Very good, although I'm expecting a clean 20 or less PIEs all the way. The burn reached above 13x though.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 RICOHJPN-R02 8x DVD+R burned at 16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as TDK 25 pack (Made in Taiwan). Not good, although AOPC kicks in still high error rate especially at the end.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 MCC003 8x DVD+R burned at 12x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Verbatim 50 pack. Excellent quality. AOPC kicks in although not needed. Written using Z-CLV.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 MAXELL002 DVD+R 8x burned at 12x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Maxell 15pack (Made in Japan). Very good.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 MBIPG101 R04 8x DVD+R burned at 12x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Staples brand 25 pack (Made in India). Excellent, as good as BenQ 1620 and Plextor 716A. LG 4163 has a problem with this media.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 CMC MAG E01 8x DVD+R burned @12x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Teon 20pack. Good burn, it didn't reach 12x though.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 RITEK R03 8x DVD+R burned @8x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Dynex 25pack. Very good burn at 8x.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 MCC03RG20 16x DVD-R burned @16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Verbatim DVD-R 25pack (Made in Taiwan). High error in the beginning and the end of the disk. Good burn though. As good as LG 4163 and Plextor 716A. Better than BenQ 1620A.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 CMCMAG.AM3 16x DVD-R burned @16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Memorex DVD-R 25pack. Good burn, as good as BenQ 1620. Can't compare with LG 4163 fw 1.04 since the firmware does not support this media yet.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 Taiyo Yuden TYG02 8x DVD-R burned @16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Fuji/TDK DVD-R 50pack Made in Japan. OK. BenQ 1620 and Plextor 716A can do much better @16x. LG 4163 only supports @8x.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 Taiyo Yuden TYG02 8x DVD-R burned @12x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Fuji/TDK DVD-R 50pack (Made in Japan.) Still lots of PIE errors. PIFs is nice. Good only in my book.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 SONY08D1 8x DVD-R burned @16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Sony 50pack (Made in Japan.) Not so good although within limits. Better than LG/BenQ.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 MXL RG03 DVD-R 8x burned at 16x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Maxell DVD-R 15pack (Made in Japan.) Not so good. BenQ 1620 did a better job on this media. Can't compare with LG 4163 because it only supports @8x.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 MCC02RG20 8x DVD-R burned @12x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Verbatim 50pack (Made in Taiwan). Very high PIEs, low PIF. OK only.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 CMC MAG AE1 8x DVD-R burned at 12x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Teon 20pack. Very high PIEs, low PIF, within limits though.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 FUJIFILM03 8x DVD-R burned @8x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Memorex 25pack (Made in India). A coaster due to bad batch I own. LG 4163 also produce coasters. Only BenQ 1620 B7V9 and Plextor 716A can handle this media within error limits.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 RITEK G05 8x DVD-R burned @12x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as TDK 50pack (Made in Taiwan). Failed to burn. Bad media.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 ProdiscF01 8x DVD-R burned @8x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as Fuji 8x DVD-R 25 pack (Made in Taiwan). Good burn.
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| Re: zevia takes a look at NEC ND-3540A firmware 1.W4 TTG02 8x DVD-R burned @8x NEC ND-3540A FW 1.W4. Media sold as TDK 50pack (Made in Taiwan). Very good burn.
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