The BitBurners.com MediaBase

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Hello fellow burners and greetings from the long time co-operative partners of CDR-Zone!

We at the BitBurners have been working on a smarter way to submit and collect DVD-R media error rate quality scans. Many websites have good discussions on their forums, but this way the information is fragmented to several sites and test results are not organized in easy to find manner.

As a solution, and I must say finally as this was planned about 2 years ago, we have developed the BitBurners MediaBase. It is a DVD media quality database that will collect Nero CD-DVD Speed input, along with your subjective ratings and textual reviews/comments.

Besides being a DVD recordable media (and recorder) database, the idea is also to act as "the ImageShack of DVD scans". Users can store their scans, with comments and rating, online and easily link to the scans from their favorite forums!

We started the public alpha version testing few weeks ago, and last weeked we released a major update to Beta 1. With the support from Erik Deppe, we got the latest Nero CD-DVD Speed to output DVD recorder information to the summary data of the Quality scan. This data is now parsed and included in the database as well. This gives us neat ways to search, link and cross reference the data in terms for DVD recorder, firmware version(s) and so on.

However, in order to pull this off we need plenty of support from the DVD recording scene. I hope admins/mods don't mind me posting it here.

Check it out at: http://media.bitburners.com/

Do a few searches, perhaps add a few scans. I can't wait to hear the comments of the most educated DVD recording community.

P.S. I've been discussing this a lot with SirQUK, and yes indeed Plextools scans could be a better source of information. Practical reasons however force us to go with Nero CD-DVD Speed, as Liteon drives are more popular and most importantly CD-DVD Speed outputs the data more conveniently. If Plextor can improve the output of Plextools (anyone here with contacts to Plextor?) then we can of course add Plextools support as well.

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MediaBase has just been updated to version Beta 2 with a load of improvements. Also added a bunch of interesting media scans. Check it out and feedback appreciated!

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