Can I burn at 4x with my DVD Burner?

[MetaPhaze]

I don't know much about DVD burning. I've made a few movies DVD9 to DVD5 etc... But I'm not sure if I can do 4x cuz Nero only lets me do 1-2x. I own a DVR-105/A05 (they are the same right? Its the Cendyne clone of the Pioneer.) I updated my firmware to that new one that does the faster ripping works great! but I still don't seem to be able to do 4x. Is it my media? If it is my media can you give me some suggestions on DVD-R 4x discs because in Best Buy I don't see any media that shows what speed it is a capable of. Sorry for the convulted post here I am really tired and looking for answers I am not an infidel.

[Bob W]

You have to buy media that is 4x. I have the same burner and it works well at 4x using Ritex 4x DVD-R.

[Vejita-sama]

I've got the Pioneer A05 (Cendyne) and burn at 4x with Princo's 4x media (bought at http://www.allmediaoutlet.com). I know that a lot of people don't 'trust' Princo but I've never had any problems with them.

As an aside I ALWAYS make a img file of the VIDEO_TS folder with IMGTools then burn the image with DVD Decrypter.

[MetaPhaze]

Yeah I hear a lot of people complain about media and stuff not working from DVD's to SVCD's. I've never had a problem with anything I've ever burned its always when I downloading an image file that is bad or something. Some of these gents run into or complain about is amazing. All you need to do is a little research. I do however know that Apex-5131 wont read the DVD-RW that came with the Cendyne drive so just keep that in the back of your mind. I am using generic Verbatims at 2x and have burned atleast 20 DVD's from Blockbuster and haven't had a problem. Even the DVD's the little kids get a hang of and destroy. Do you guys know of any retail store that carries 4x DVD-R's in the Chicagoland area?

[Suave74]

Do you guys know of any retail store that carries 4x DVD-R's in the Chicagoland area?

I bought some 4x tdk dvd+r at circut city in chicago but they did not burn @ 4x

[txpharoah]

Take them back if they don't work. Also be sure your drive is updated to work with the discs.

[mdtplus4]

I buy my DVD-Rs off Ebay for for a lot less than Bestbuy or Circuit City and haven't had any problems with them yet.

[sector001]

make sure your authoring software or whatever u use can select the writing speed. i use prassi primo dvd, the one that came with my Sony vaio and also ulead's dvdmf2.0. after i upgraded the firmware, i was able to select at what speed to write at. the write speeds available to me was 1-8x. u can get 4x dvd+-rw media at www.meriteline.com

[sector001]

sorry, that should've been www.meritline.com