Burn speed vs quality

[jjjordan]

Could someone either explain clearly or direct me to someplace that would explain why burning at a slower speed produces a (take your pick):

Better quality recording
More compatible DVD i.e. plays on more stand alone players
Lasts longer

The reason I'm asking (after looking at over 100 forum postings) is that I burnt a DVD and the video freezes several times throughout the DVD for several seconds while the sound continues, when played on my stand alone player. I'm about to burn another at a slow speed to see if it makes a difference, but wanted to find out other opinions and facts.

Used TMPGEnc DVD Author, HP 300i burner, and Ritek DVD+R disks. The original files play fine on the computer. I'm using TMPGEnc DVD Author to actually burn the disks and it looks like it burns at MAX rate no matter what.

I'm going to try some different things, such as burn it with RecordNow Max at a slow speed, but just couldn't understand why people have said that burning it slower will make a difference.

DVD+R are burnt with a phase change dye layer and I can't imagine why a slower burn would produce a better finished product. I can't find a site that clearly spells out the differences.

Thanks for any input.

[Vejita-sama]

Generally speaking burning at full speed doesn't make any difference in quaility or life span of the media. My personal view is that people are remembering back in the days when CDR drives first came out. I had one of the first 2x (SCSI) drives around (Phillips). If you didn't burn audio discs at 1x you got errors (beeps, skips, etc). Also media was a huge problem. Had to be 2x (or latter 4x) certified media.

These days you can buy ANY CDR from anyone and burn full speed no problem. Some of the first DVDR drives were picky, and to a certain extent even some of the newer ones don't like certain media brands. But I've always burnt full speed (4x on Pioneer DVR-A05) without a single problem.