Prodisc F01 media question

[peridigm]

I have been using prodisc 4x inkjet printables for almost a year and have not had any problems. I recently upgraded my dvd burner to a lite-on 1633s. I ordered some 8x printable from supermedia and started having problems. Sometimes I get perfect burns and sometimes not. My lg 4x burner burns them perfect though. Sometimes the burns will read in my sony player but not in my pc dvd drive. Here is what dvdinfo says about my media...
Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID ProdiscF01
Format Type UDF 1.02
Volume Name
Application id ELBY CLONEDVD
Implementation id ELABORATE BYTES
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 1/ 5/2005 19:04:36
Format Capacity 4.36GB(4.68GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed Unknown
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 6.0x 8310KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 09
2x Speed OPC power 0F
2x Write Strategy field 1 10 88 78 90
2x Write Strategy field 2 29 82 10 21 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 05
4x Speed OPC power 17
4x Write Strategy field 1 0D 0F 07 07
4x Write Strategy field 2 96 06 0D 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 80 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 05
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 1A
4x Write Strategy field 4 17 96 77 75
4x Write Strategy field 5 7C DF B9 93 11 11
4x Write Strategy field 6 1A AA D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 22D90Fh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 00 6C 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 88 0D 0C .l...@....R.....
00000010 88 88 90 00 03 50 72 6F 64 69 73 00 04 63 46 30 .....Prodis..cF0
00000020 31 00 00 00 05 B8 83 00 30 00 01 00 06 09 0F 10 1.......0.......

What this says to me is the media is actually only 4x which might explain why I can burn most dvd's at 4x with clonedvd2 and not have any problems. Is that true? If so supermedia is selling 4x media as 8x.

Now I had some left over ritek g04 inkjet printables and decided to try burning them at 8x since I read some threads of people actually having good luck with it. I burned Res Evil 2 in just over 6 minutes. I'm using clonedvd2 and anydvd. When I popped it back in the dvd drive it played perfectly. I did a crc check with dvdinfo and it turned out perfect.

I used omnipatcher from the codeguys to patch my original firmware. My question is, do I maybe have a bad batch of media, or is it a firmware media compatibility issue?

[chas0039]

Do some digging here and you will see that a lot of people have problems with F01s, especially the printables. Since you have an Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x I would not suggest that this is 4X media. Quite a few media will get better burns at slower speeds. I would avoid this and maybe consider Ritek G05s. Many people have better luck with these. Your writer is generally better at +R so you might not. Check around and maybe you can find someone with some scans before you buy.