Does burn speed matter?

[thermalundy]

I was just wondering if there is any difference in quality burning VCDs at high speeds or low speeds? Does it make any difference?

[Vejita-sama]

Some people have reporting that if they don't burn at 2x or 1x they have problems. However, I've had both a Plextor 8x and not have a Liteon 24x and ALWAYS burn full speed. I've never had a problem, and if you do a search on this topic, you'll most people don't have any problems either.

[thermalundy]

Okay, thanks.

[tinycorkscrew]

What Vejita-sama said.

Decreasing burn speed only makes a difference with poor quality media. If you're using media that works well with your player, it shouldn't make a difference.

[sommersby]

had problems at 16x, scaled back to 8x and have no problems in 6mo.

[JJamez]

A lot of people flat out deny that burn speed has any consequence on playback, simply because they don't personally have a problem... However, the explanations here are accurate - most won't have a problem, a few will, and those who do are probably using poor quality media.

I was reading an article about overburning where they ran some tests and found it was crucial to burn the outer edges of the CDs (the 'overburnt' part) at 1x or 2x with the burners tested. At higher speeds, the laser placement became inaccurate and caused errors or failed burns. I would imagine the margin for error is much greater when burning past where a CD is meant to be burned, and this may be irrelevant to burning the CD normally, but I still thought it was interesting.

JJ

[homerpez]

I personally would say (just from personal experience) to stay 8x and below, even if you have one of those 20x Yamaha burners... Seems to work reliably for be, but I've noted that faster isn't necessarily better. Either for SVCD's, or for even regular data CD's. I think I have enough patience to wait 10 minutes, so 8x is good enough.

[Vejita-sama]

8x might be good enough, but trust me 24x better. It's just like when you first got a microwave "what boil water in 1.5min?! Why the hell would I need/want to do that. Like waiting 5min on the stove would kill me"

Of course it also depends on how much stuff you burn.

[iluvJLO]

whats the point of getting a burner faster than 8x if you're not gonna use it?

[d4n13l]

"whats the point of getting a burner faster than 8x if you're not gonna use it?"
Because they begin to phase out burners with a maximum speed of 8x; just like you can no longer buy a P3 500 from the shops anymore.

Burn speed can make a difference sometimes because there are so many different brands of media and there is such varied hardwareb available. The process of burning a CDR/CDRW is non-linear and of consequence, burn speed can sometimes affect the outcome of a CDR/CDRW in certain situations. Do bear in mind that these occasions are not that common. There is no blanket statement that covers everybody, this is something that individuals have to find for themselves. You cant say, "burn at 8x because it works better for me", because different burners perform optimumly at different burn speeds and even more of a factor is the media people use: There is no single media brand that works the best with every single CDRW drive out - What may suck in one drive may work perfectly in another.

For each CDRW drive, there is an optimum burn speed. This optimum burn speed will vary depending on the media used.

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[homerpez]

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You're wrong there. I CAN say "burn at 8x because it works better for me". Ready?

Burn at 8x because it works better for me!

There's one reason I thought of too, why you may not want to burn your VCD's and SVCD's at the same speed at Data CD's... error correction.

When you burn Data CD's, you get about 100MB less in space, but you gain error correction. On a VCD, there is no correction. So, it could be possible that you could burn a DATA cd at 24x, but the same speed on a VCD could result in more errors!

Yes, it is different for everyone, so I guess just take your particular machine and play.

[sommersby]

Your right, I use cheap media, .18 a cd, I have a tdk 24x drive, a good one. I can burn data cd's at 24x no problem, music cd's at 16x, no problem, but with the cheap media I find 8x is a safe speed for svcd/vcd. If I wanted to double or triple my media cost I could probubly burn at a higher speed, but I have two teenagers and go through 200 cd's a month so the extra wait is worth it for me.