And a new firmware, it looks like - and with that capability, NEC have a good chance to crack the "enthusiast" market, where such features are more in demand than by the average user who's never even thought of doing a basic read test on their burns, unless it means just ticking the "verify" box.
Of course, testing using consumer drives is by no means definitive, and drives of different make and model (or even the same make and model) often disagree.
Pioneer got questionable scan support in DVDInfoPro ONLY, the results are unconvincing compared to Liteon, Benq and Plextor scans, and the requirement to use the shareware/awkwardware program is another negative.
The initial scan results for the NEC are also being queried, as they appeared unexpectedly poor for the media - though if the NEC is a very sensitive scanning drive, that would increase the confidence level of a good scan
