Suggestions to BenQ and/or Philips Engineers

Making your BenQ master will solve the selecting problem in Qscan. Did on mine.

Not if you have several drives (mine is secondary master).

Mines sec mas and never had to select it. When it was sec slave i did.

you only have to change the drive letters to work. Put your benq first (in controlpannel/admin tools)

produce a firmware that can write FUJIFILM03 8x dye type
P/S/T firmwares just fail at leadin, and this is a very common disk in the UK.

my NEC2500a and Liteon 811s have to problems writing to this media.

Hi!

The DW1620 is really a great drive, but has some problems with new RICOHJPND00 DL media. See here:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=119791

The new LG Burner burns them at 4x with better quality:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=117100

CU

Interestingly enough I have 0 quality issues on the -R side of burning with this drive.

In fact most of my scans come out at either similar or better quality than the +R scans I see in this forum

Thats using the cheap Teon 8x Media Overspeeding at 12x. Its read as CMC Mag. AE1.

QScan is a great program, works well and is a valuable utility. Being the first version, there are some things that should be corrected or tweaked:

1. The Blank Disc Capacity is wrong. 4.7 GB (decimal) discs with a binary capacity of 4.38 GB are listed as containing 4,076 MB. This is a bug in the program.

2. Another bug. When the graph is saved, the Save As dialog pops up in the center of the graph. If the graph is saved with the Save As dialog in that position, anything on the graph covered by the Save As dialog will be blanked out on the saved file. It is now necessary as a workaround to move the QScan graph to the edge of the screen before a file is saved. The Save As dialog must then be moved to the other end of the screen from the QScan graph to keep it from blocking the results when the file is saved.

3. QScan graph results are saved in the wasteful bitmap (.BMP) format, resulting in files sizes of 1.23 MB for one graph. A compressed .JPG file is only about 67 KB. To change to this efficient format, saved files must be converted manually from .BMP to .JPG. The program should save the files to a compressed format such as .JPG or .PNG automatically.

In spite of these quibbles, I am very pleased with the QScan program.

Better firmware support for the DVDRW228K.

I mean the latest firmware version is of December 2003 and does not support x8 media which will be main-stream in a short time.
Ricoh (manufacturer of the drives internal stuff) has already released newer firmware versions to support x8 medias.
I really do not understand why Philips is not upgrading their firmware of older drives.

Mailing Philips Customer Support Centre also does not help.

@Humphrey

Is there none that supports 8x media? 1.68 seems to support it.

@Kenshin

Yes, v1.68 supports 8x media but Philips has not released this version. Their latest version is v1.64 which only supports 4x media properly.
Ricoh has even released a v1.72 for their MP5125A drive recently but I do not want to reflash my drive with the Ricoh version.

Make a slim drive for notebook like the NEC 6500. Better yet, one type for removable bay (easily swappable), the other just like the plain old modular type (requires removing the screw) like the NEC 6500.

It does not have to be 16X. 8X +-R SL &4X DL speed is fine with me.

Blu-Ray &HD DVD dual format blue laser burner mid 2005!!!

Off topic, if you are an external enclosure manufacturer, I challenge you to make an external enclosure for notebook slim CD/DVD burner like the NEC 6500.

To all DVD burner makers, autobooktype SL &DL DVD+R to DVD-ROM. Well, you know why Pioneer A08 is not selling.

For BenQ: Make two branches of firmware (don´t know how Philips handles this):

- one "conservative" where only fine tuning is done, to try to get the best writing quality
- one "progressive" where higher speeds, overburning, burning with higher than rated speeds are supported.

Sometimes it seems as if B7T9 is the experimental and B7P9 the stable release. If it is - *just tell the user* and let him decides himself. There is not really much information about T9 as opposed to P9/M9 which come with very nice version information.

Regards, Lutz

BenQ DW1620 needs improvement in reading -R media recorded on other
burners than this drive itself.
The problem is a proper recognition of recorded disk capacity.

Check it here:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=123473

European BenQ: Get new firmwares out quicker (still G/P7M9 !)
BenQ in general: Dont treat bulk/OEM owners as 2nd class, e.g. release T9 for bulk as well as for retail.

Today, Philips has put the 1.72 upgrade for the DVDRW228 on their website:

http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/d...CT=FUS&DID=ENG

Just take a look at the Philips manual for the 1640 (take care: almost 6 MB pdf):

http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/d/d...00_dfu_nld.pdf

I hope they'll improve the Benq 1620's ability to read poor quality media. I have about 20 discs to backup but the benq can't read them. They play pretty well on standalones and my laptop.

If I want to attach the BenQ 1620 drive to external USB box, shall I
upgrade the firmware to the one used in EW162i to get a better
performance?

I love the dvd burning abilities, but the CD read/write abilities lag.. Some original game CD's won't play in this drive, let alone quality copies. Make the CD to where it will read/write better quality CD burns...

offer all benQ 1620 owners a 50% rebate on the next generation BenQ drives!

provide OEM/bulk drives official update to Retail firmwares. What's the point of having 2 different firmwares?

Just a FYI for all you folks on QSuite...

I have a BenQ 1620 installed in an external case running B7U9...

USB2 = All functions within QSuite's works correctly.
1394a = QScan DOES NOT work, all other functions A-OK.

Put 6 speed burn in to -r discs that are rated at 8
Can't burn Princo -r 4 speed discs without disabling WOPC have no problem with these discs in Pioneer 107-109 and sony Dru510A