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What is the difference between Burnproof & Burnproof II?

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alluu

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I was looking at the newer 24X CDRW and saw burnproof II. I have been out of this stuff for a while since I have been very happy with my Iomega rebadged Plextor but someone askedd me to get them a new burner so I am trying to catch up on this technology. Anything of real significance?

Thanks
 
Burn proof II is just a new revision of BP and it leaves less gap during switchover compared to classic burn proof.
 
Dumb question then. What does smaller gaps mean in terms of cd quality, readability and how long a disc will last? And is BP II something I should look for or is the original BP just fine?
 
The original BurnProof created gaps up to 45 micron long when the writing laser was stopped.

The newer BurnProof II reduces the gap from 45 microns to 5 microns in order to compete with Richoh's JustLink techonology, which creates gaps of only 6 microns.

In terms of actual CD reads, any CD drive will ignore gaps up to 100 microns in length, so really it doesn't matter. It makes no difference to readability, quality or life of the disc.

About the only thing I can think of is reduced write capacity with the old BurnProof, as more space is wasted. But this is not even a factor worth considering unless you had several bufffer under-run related stops every second while writing. The technology itself prevents this from happening anyway.
 
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