Can't play DVDs burned at 4x???

[Krzyhoo]

Hi all,
I have brand new Plextor708. In last few days I burned maybe 10dvds and I have problems. DVDs burned at 4x dont wont to play, or playback is "bumpy". Video freezes for 2-6secs every few minutes. I tryied on different media - TDK, Verbatim, Princo. Interesting thing - TDK+RW burned at 4x dont want to play at all - "disc error" on dvd player. Same one burned at 2x is playing great. I have tryied playing on Apex 1500 and Philips 724, seems no difference. Any ideas what is wrong? Writer, software, player? I use mostly Encore DVD or DVD Workshop for authoring, burning with Nero (supplied with burner).

Thanks for any replies,
Chris

[Hardcoreruss]

have you tried them in a different player ?

[vivisimonvi]

I have the same problems using COMPLETELY DIFFERENT burning/converting/authoring methods... It seems burning at a lower speed ensures the lowest read-error-rate possible when reading the disc from standalones... Does your DVD play fine on your computer? Most likely it should, otherwise your disc has serious read errors burning at a high rate (a hundred reasons can be because of this, most likely you have other background programs running at the same time, you should turn them off before burning).

From my experience the most important DVD archival material should be burned at the LOWEST speed possible to ensure the best read quality.

[Krzyhoo]

I tried in a "friendly" store on few others, rather cheap DVDplayers, same effect. AFAIK, only Kiss and some other brand (cant remeber by now) handled DVD well.

BTW, I was tired of burning at x1 speed my test projects to RW and waiting 30mins for final one. Thats why I bought rather fast and expencive burner.

I can still exchange this 708 to Pioneer 106 or 107 - but I'm not sure if this can help