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| Thread ID: 97701 | 2009-02-24 08:42:00 | DVD + or - | Poppa John (284) | Press F1 |
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| 751041 | 2009-02-26 00:35:00 | The best rule of thumb is to burn at half the advertised maximum speed of any media. Yes I've heard this often and it appears to be the best way to ensure reliable burning, but I don't want to ! I have a drive and disks that state 16X - then 16X it is, and I find in my case Verbatims work - although often I seem to end up with 12X ones. Having to burn at a lower speed equates to poor quality in my book, and false advertising as well. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 751042 | 2009-02-26 00:54:00 | I've always burnt CDs at 32x and DVDs at 8x, regardless of whats advertised on the disks. Very rarely have any issues. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 751043 | 2009-02-26 01:18:00 | Yes I've heard this often and it appears to be the best way to ensure reliable burning, but I don't want to ! I have a drive and disks that state 16X - then 16X it is, and I find in my case Verbatims work - although often I seem to end up with 12X ones. Having to burn at a lower speed equates to poor quality in my book, and false advertising as well. Really?! The speedo in my Maxima goes up to 320 kph - seldom do I ever achieve that speed around town :lol::lol::lol: |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 751044 | 2009-02-26 01:42:00 | Yes I've heard this often and it appears to be the best way to ensure reliable burning, but I don't want to ! I have a drive and disks that state 16X - then 16X it is, and I find in my case Verbatims work - although often I seem to end up with 12X ones. Having to burn at a lower speed equates to poor quality in my book, and false advertising as well. "then 16X it is" read the comments on CAV here, www.pcguide.com , you'll only see 16x if you're burning a full disk. Any less and you're just imagining it. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 751045 | 2009-02-26 01:42:00 | poor analogy, there is no law against 16X burning :p and yeah, I meant the 16X setting, I'm aware that it doesn't actually achieve 16X for much of the burn |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 751046 | 2009-02-26 10:15:00 | Most of the time you'll find its a poorer burn at the higher speeds. Many drives nowadays are fine at 4x & 8x, but I remember only like a few years back that I had to burn at 2x or 4x (with certain brands of media on my Optorite drive) otherwise the discs werent readable in 50%+ of all other players ... Not only has the burn process improved considerably, the tolerance (for poor-quality burns) of players has also. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 751047 | 2009-02-26 18:13:00 | I've always burnt music cd's at slowest setting,usually 4x. But have just been copying some LP's onto CD for a friend and decided to check with NeroDisc Speed and DVDInfo re the quality of the burns.I'm using Verbatim now with a Pioneer drive and found that 10-12x burning had less errors than 4x.And the same with Verbatim DVD's. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 751048 | 2009-02-26 19:12:00 | Some media isnt rated to burn at the slower speed. Every drive make / model is different with its preferences too ... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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