Does quality of video change with a faster burn????

[SHARKO]

I'm would like to jump on the bandwagon with all these new drives coming out. The one I'm looking at is a HP movie writer that can burn +'s at 16X. But if video quality is worse at a faster burn does it make sense??. I'm getting conflicting info. Any help??

[ZippyP.]

Short answer...no. It's digital information so it's either there or it's not, no in between. A bad burn or bad media can cause glitches, freezing etc. and that can sometimes be remedied by burning slower or with better disks.

[wantedman]

My experience is you should burn at a slower rate. I just bought some TY and burned at 8x freezes/pauses about the last 10 minutes of the movie. burnt the same movie at 2x works flawless. but what you might want to think about is the future burn speed will be higher when even better media comes out. my problem is probably my burner tho.

[bugster]

My experience is you should burn at a slower rate. I just bought some TY and burned at 8x freezes/pauses about the last 10 minutes of the movie. burnt the same movie at 2x works flawless. but what you might want to think about is the future burn speed will be higher when even better media comes out. my problem is probably my burner tho.

So you had one bad disk and one good one. Doesn't really prove that burn speed was or was not to blame. Do the same test across several batches of disk, bought from different suppliers, and 100 or more burns and you might get some statistical evidence one way or the other.

IMHO, as long as you don't burn above the media's quoted burn speed (which some drives let you do with some media) and you use decent quality media, you should get results as good as at lower speeds.