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DVD Burner & Blank Media Compatibility Report

Vendor Conductor: VSO Software
Software Used for Testing: BlindWrite
CopyToDVD
ConvertXToDVD
PhotoDVD
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Chapter 2 - Most Popular DVD Hardware Makers

Here is the list of the top used brands, sorted by uses :

 

Manufacturer

Uses

Success

Success Ratio

1

LG

2 815 427

2 666 980

94.73%

2

NEC

2 131 734

2 046 530

96.00%

3

PIONEER

1 340 158

1 239 220

92.47%

4

LITE-ON

1 331 939

1 249 516

93.81%

5

SONY

1 305 556

1 217 034

93.22%

6

SAMSUNG

839 080

778 418

92.77%

7

HP

750 440

711 320

94.79%

8

PHILIPS

579 610

550 735

95.02%

9

PLEXTOR

453 452

433 846

95.68%

10

BTC

341 673

302 308

88.48%

11

BENQ

340 668

325 732

95.62%

12

MATSHITA

331 633

301 372

90.88%

13

ATAPI

197 062

184 957

93.86%

14

TOSHIBA

182 738

170 757

93.44%

15

MEMOREX

160 119

151 904

94.87%

16

TEAC

126 527

117 884

93.17%

17

AOPEN

121 856

112 765

92.54%

18

ASUS

117 075

108 015

92.26%

19

MAD-DOG

63 217

60 419

95.57%

20

TDK

62 085

58 134

93.64%

21

TSST

45 005

43 168

95.92%

22

GENERIC

41 535

38 618

92.98%

23

SLIMTYPE

40 033

35 344

88.29%

24

QSI

29 898

27 265

91.19%

25

RICOH

27 381

24 134

88.14%

26

OPTORITE

25 265

23 499

93.01%

27

FREECOM

21 768

19 758

90.77%

28

MAD DOG 17 042 16 744 98.25%
29 MCC 13 905 12 944 93.09%

As you can see the popularity decreases quickly after the top 5. We will focus our attention on BenQ later, despite its 11th place.

LG is leading, followed by NEC, then Pioneer and Lite-ON. If we combine HP/SONY/Lite-ON (because Lite-ON is producing for Sony and HP) we could re-sort the chart. Plextor, which is well known in the community, is only at the 9th place probably because they are not as active in OEM bundling as their competitors. We almost had the same top tendencies, in December 2005.

If any unmentioned manufacturer wants to collaborate to use this database or help VSO to provide better support, they may contact us (see contact section).

According to our report, the top 4 manufacturers account for more than 50% of the burns.

 

 




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