Pioneer A03 / Ulead Movie Factory -- question on burn time

[dood]

I successfully burned my first DVD using this combination. On the creation screen of Movie Factory, it said "burning at 1.0 x 1385 kb/sec". It took about 50 minutes for the writing process. This was a generic DVD-R.

I know the A03 is a 2x burner. What should this time be?

Thanks

[dazzle3]

The pioneer will only burn pioneer dvd-r and TDK dvd-r media 2X all other meadia at 1x this is written in the firmware of the unit Pioneer do not plan to change this at the moment.

[dood]

Is this true? How do it know the difference?

So what is the REAL TIME burn time for a full 4.3gb DVD-R at 2x? About 30 minutes or so?

[blade0819]

The Pioneer A03 will burn DVD-RW at 1X. DVD-R will burn at 2X (2.4) supposedly. I heard that it's not a true 2X. Check some reviews online. See the excerpt from an article below.

http://www.sourcemagazine.com/csm/Forum3/HTML/000035.html

"In the end, we found that the 2X DVD-R rating of the DVR-A03 is somewhat misleading. Burning DVD-R media at 2X requires a test burn, which effectively doubles the burn time and gives you an effective 1X burn."