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PlexDisc DVD+R burned in HP LG GT80N 2
Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the HP version of the LG GT80N

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the HP version of the LG GT80N

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Hi everyone, Today, we’ll see how well the PlexDisc DVD+R discs burns in the HP version of the LG GT80N optical drive: We will be using ImgBurn to perform the writing and verification. It reports the media code to be OPTODISC-R16-00 and supports writing at 4x and 8x. We will be burning it at 8x: The drive burned the disc using a CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) strategy, starting at about 3.3x and gradually going up until reaching 8x: The disc…

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PlexDisc DVD+R in the LG GP96YB70 External Slim Optical Drive
Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc in the LG GP96YB70 optical drive

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc in the LG GP96YB70 optical drive

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be burning a PlexDisc DVD+R disc in the LG GP96YB70 external slim drive: This drive supports burning these discs at 4x and 8x. We will be burning it at 8x: This unit supports setting the DVD+R Book Type to DVD-ROM. This is useful as this can improve the disc compatibility with older drives: The drive was able to burn the disc successfully: And verified it correctly: The drive burns the disc in Constant Angular Velocity…

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PlexDisc DVD+R Burned in LG BP60NB10 2
Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the LG BP60NB10 optical drive with the 1.02 firmware – Part 2

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the LG BP60NB10 optical drive with the 1.02 firmware – Part 2

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be attempting again to burn a PlexDisc DVD+R disc in the LG BP50NB40 crossflashed to the BP60NB10 firmware 1.02. This time, we will burn the disc at a speed of 2.4x, the slowest and only speed it allows us to use besides the 8x speed we used before: As we can see, the drive only supports either burning the disc at 2.4x or 8x. We will use the 2.4x: The burning process was successful, but…

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PlexDisc DVD+R Burned in LG BP60NB10 2
Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the LG BP60NB10 optical drive with the 1.02 firmware

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the LG BP60NB10 optical drive with the 1.02 firmware

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be burning a PlexDisc DVD+R disc in the LG BP50NB40 crossflashed to the BP60NB10 firmware 1.02: We will be using ImgBurn to perform the burning and verification process. This drive reports to be able to burn these discs at 2.4x and 8x. We will be burning them at 8x: The burning process was successful, and it burnt in CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) mode starting at 3.3x and going all the way up to 8x: The…

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PlexDisc DVD+R Burned in LG BP60NB10 2
Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the LG BP60NB10 optical drive

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the LG BP60NB10 optical drive

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be burning a PlexDisc DVD+R disc in the LG BP50NB40 crossflashed to the BP60NB10 firmware v1.00: We will be using ImgBurn to perform the burning and verification process. This drive seems to be able to burn these discs at 2.4x and 8x. We will be burning them at 8x: The burning process was successful, and it burnt in CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) mode starting at 3.3x and going all the way up to 8x: Unfortunately,…

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LG GP96 5
The LiteOn DS-8A5S and LG GP96YB70 supports scanning discs

The LiteOn DS-8A5S and LG GP96YB70 supports scanning discs

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Hi everyone, Today, I’ll show 2 scans from the previous post where I burned a PlexDisc DVD+R in the LiteOn DU-8A5LH. These scans are from the LiteOn DS-8A5S and from the newer LG GP96YB70. While the LiteOn doesn’t come as a surprise, the LG does, since most of their drives do not support performing quality scans. As an expansion of the previous post, here are the quality scans: LiteOn DS-8A5S LG GP96YB70 We already saw that this disc was a…

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LG Ultra Slim Portable Blu-Ray Writer 1
The LG Ultra Slim Portable Blu-Ray Writer, Model BP50NB40

The LG Ultra Slim Portable Blu-Ray Writer, Model BP50NB40

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be looking at the LG Ultra Slim Portable Blu-Ray Writer, Model BP50NB40 I brought about a year ago: This is a portable ultra slim CD, DVD and Blu-Ray writer. It can burn BD-R and BD-R DL at up to 6x, BD-R XL (BDXL) at up to 4X, and BD-RE and BD-RE DL at up to 2x. For DVDs, it can burn DVD+/-R and DVD+/-RW at up to 8x, DVD+/-R DL at up to 6x and…

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Hiby R3 with LG GP96YB70 Audio CD 1
Listening to Audio CD in the Hiby R3

Listening to Audio CD in the Hiby R3

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Hi everyone, 2 weeks ago, I got the LG GP96Y (GP96YB70) External Slim CD/DVD drive. This drive is marketed as a Multi-OS drive with compatibility with Android and compatible TV’s. One thing that some LG drives have is that they can mount a disk as a FAT32 filesystem, allowing browsing the disc on systems that do not officially support disc drives. What I did not know is that when an Audio CD is inserted, it can mount it and show…

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LG GP96 1
The LG GP96 (GP96YB70) External Slim DVD Writer

The LG GP96 (GP96YB70) External Slim DVD Writer

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Hi everyone, Today, I finally got the LG GP96 drive delivered to me. It was ordered some 3 weeks ago but you know, Amazon’s shipping to US territories is the worst, taking weeks to ship them just to have them ship them with UPS 2-day Air service. So yeah, it was shipped on the 10th of August and I got it today, when the initial order was made on July 22nd. Nevertheless, today, I finally got it and I can…

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SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB on Pioneer BDR-2212
Burning a SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive at 4x

Burning a SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive at 4x

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Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well the Pioneer BDR-2212 can burn the SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Discs at a speed of 4x: This drive can burn these discs at up to 8x but we will focus burning it at 4x this time: The burning process was successful: Data verification was also successful: Here’s how the disc surface look after burning it: The surface looks smooth and identical to the 6x and 8x burns. Quality Scans We’ll see how…

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