Does anyone know if PLDS DH-8B2SH blu-ray drive can burn dual-layered BD-R?

[KingKRool2002]

I have tried various searches on Google and Yahoo and I check the Capabilities of my Blu-ray writer drive, but I haven't been able to find anything mentioning whether my PLDS DH-8B2SH drive can burn dual-layered Blu-ray writable discs. Does anyone know about this? Imgburn doesn't have dl bd-r in their capabilities list, just bd-r and bd-r xl. I know that the drive can do bl dvd-rs, but I can't figure out if it can do dl bd-rs. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Kerry56]

I don't remember ever seeing a blu ray burner that couldn't write to both single and double layer discs. If they existed, I've forgotten.

This burner is relatively new though, made by Lite-on/Philips for Dell I believe. A modern drive should certainly be able to write to double layer blu ray. Be careful of your choice of media however. I'd try the Verbatim brand DL BD-R first.

[KingKRool2002]

Yeah, I just got the pc recently, but I couldn't find any info on the drive's dual-layer burning ability. I tried several dl TDK bds (which I realize are cheap discs) and all of them failed to burn in Imgburn after @ 4-10% of the total burning process (none of them even got anywhere near the 50% spot). I bought some Verbatim dls from Amazon, but they are quite expensive (and I had to get them from a Japanese seller, so it would be quite expensive to ship them back), so I was hoping to find out about this before they arrive. Is there any diagnosis tool or program that can tell me if the drive supports dl bd-r burning? I don't know of any website that would have this type of software. Do you know any websites?

[Kerry56]

You could ask over at MyCE.com. There are certainly people who know the Lite-on blu ray drives better than me in that forum. Albert, cvs, 2601 and deanwitty are some of the more knowledgeable folks there when it comes to drives.

[KingKRool2002]

You could ask over at MyCE.com. There are certainly people who know the Lite-on blu ray drives better than me in that forum. Albert, cvs, 2601 and deanwitty are some of the more knowledgeable folks there when it comes to drives.

Okay, I posted a topic there too. Thanks! I'll post here once I get an answer.

[jman98]

If ImgBurn doesn't list BD-R DL in the capabilities for this player then I bet it can't do it. Unfortunately for you the major manufacturers are rather infamous for providing crippled burners to customers. Dell is selling this, so yes, I think it is actually is quite possible that it can't burn BD-R DL discs and you just wasted your money. I remember maybe a couple of months ago a discussion here about some guy who thought he had bought a BD burner for his laptop but what he actually got was a CD/DVD burner that could read BD discs but not burn them. So missing capabilities happens all the time with laptops and burners sold by PC manufacturers.

[Kerry56]

ImgBurn simply doesn't have a category in its Capabilities list for burning DL BD-R. It doesn't show up on either my LG GGW-H20L or my Pioneer 207MBK, and I know for certain that both of those drives can burn to DL BD-R dics.

So you cannot assume anything about DL BD-R by what is listed in ImgBurn.

I still say I haven't seen a single blu ray burner that cannot burn blu ray DL discs, and I doubt very much that this one will be the first.

[jman98]

ImgBurn simply doesn't have a category in its Capabilities list for burning DL BD-R. It doesn't show up on either my LG GGW-H20L or my Pioneer 207MBK, and I know for certain that both of those drives can burn to DL BD-R dics.

In that case, I'd say ignore my previous post.

Verbatim BD-R DL discs will give you the greatest chance for success. I'd advise burning them as slow as your burner allows.

[[_chef_]]

There is no need for a tool providing info about BD-R/E DL burning capabilities because its unlike with DVD!
BD-R/E DL were already in the specs when BD [burners] appeared on the market. I'd say there is not one BD burner that cannot burn also BD-R/E DL media!
With DVD all things were different: first there was DVD-RAM, then came DVD-R and then DVD-RW and DVD+RW...months later DVD+R appeared (I leave the DL variants aside now).

So, DVDinfoPro, Discinfo and even Optidrivecontrol & Nero driveinfo should be enough.

[turk690]

I have tried various searches on Google and Yahoo and I check the Capabilities of my Blu-ray writer drive, but I haven't been able to find anything mentioning whether my PLDS DH-8B2SH drive can burn dual-layered Blu-ray writable discs. Does anyone know about this? Imgburn doesn't have dl bd-r in their capabilities list, just bd-r and bd-r xl....

That drive, and all other BD rewriters, can write & read dual-layer BD-R. That it can do BD-R XL, which is multi-layer, should have tipped you off. But IMHO the problem lies not in the wretched drive but in the PC it is connected to, if that is one whose specs are on your profile. Pentium, etc? Seriously, I'd fully expect to create beautiful and expensive BD-R coasters with that, dual-layer or not.

[[_chef_]]

DL is already "multi-layer".
BD XL is either TL or QL.