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Today Philips demonstrated SolidBurn to us, a new self-learning DVD burning feature that ensures the optimal writing conditions for DVD-recordable media. SolidBurn is able to excute a series of tests on DVD media and automatically determine the optimal writing strategy. SolidBurn should be able to do this much faster than existing technologies. Currently only single layer DVD recordable media is supported and according to a Philips spokesperson the best results are reached on DVD+R as there are still many low quality DVD-R discs on the market.

Solid Burn 可以用更快的速度偵測光碟片品質, 並且決定最佳的寫入策略.

The write strategy of a DVD drive is the way in which it writes to a blank DVD media. Normally these write strategies are determined by extensive media tests at the drive manufacturer and listed in the firmware of the drive. But unfortunately these media lists are not complete. And with new DVD media regularly coming to market, consumers need to update their DVD writers with the latest firmware to ensure an up-to-date media list for best recording quality, also different batches of drives and media can distort the results. To keep the media strategies up to date users will need to update their firmware and according to Philips, many users simply don't update their firmware. With SolidBurn there is no longer a need to update the firmware for better writing strategies.

舊的方式: 把 Media Code 放在韌體上, 因此如果韌體沒更新, 新推出的片子就不知道如何處理, 或者是同樣的片品質變更了, 只用笨笨的韌體也無法對應變化, Solid Burn 可以自動偵測並且學習(記住)光碟片的品質


When a new disc is inserted into the drive, SolidBurn executes automatically a series of tests on the DVD media. Based on the DVD writer’s measurements capabilities such as jitter and PiSum-8 , the SolidBurn algorithm delivers a multiple of unique parameter settings that control the drive during the normal writing process. The drive writes a small part on the disc (The OPC area) to be able to do tests.

當有新的光碟片塞近來時, SolidBurn 使用了一小塊區域(OPC)來做寫入測試, 然後記住這種光碟的參數, 以後正常燒錄時使用.


Users have the ability to decide if they want to use SolidBurn. Applications that support the Philips drives DVDR1648 and DVDR1628 will give the user the ability to uncheck the feature, SolidBurn is by default on. The company is not planning to allow users to do jitter tests to check the quality of burned discs.

你可以打開或關掉 SolidBurn, 預設為打開, 支援的機種為 Philips DVDR1648 DVDR1628. 另外, 公司不打算讓使用者測試Jitter.

Philips will introduce SolidBurn in its new DVDR1648 and DVDR1628 drives, available in August 2005. Also other drives that use Philips chipsets (E.g. BenQ) will have the functionality.
2005 八月份就可以玩了, 同樣 Philips 晶片的機器當然也受惠 (Benq)