Burning CD's at Higher than Recommended Speeds

[darkblackx]

Hey All
I just bought a 32x 12x 40x LiteOn Burner. I love it.
I have noticed it lets me burn cd-r's that say 2-24x at 32x.....and a CD-rw thats 4-10x at 12x.

The cd has no problems when reading and the vcd's i burn even work in my fussy Sony DVD player.

I was wondering if this is a bad practise though, will the cd's ahve a short life, or does it strain the burner....... there must be a reason why cd's say on the front 2- 32x..........

Any help advice would be appreciated.

[bbb]

I use a LiteOn burner too (24x). They work great at burning media beyond their rated speeds.

With current CD burners on current (1GHz) systems, if it burns smoothly (without long pausing, without burnproof constantly kicking in) and your dvdplayer plays it smoothly then your cdrw is burned fine.

If you burn a disc with errors, your burning app will let you know of a burning error. Moreover, the disc will not play very well if at all.


*People who recommend burning SVCDs/VCDs at low speeds like 4x for supposed greater SVCD/VCD playback quality have no basis or evidence for their advice. Perhaps this was usable advice for slower systems with older CD burners but it is not the case now.

[pacoreguenga]

BBB is right.

If your discs can be burned that fast, you´re in luck.

Slow burning is only aplicable to computers having sloow cpu (200 MHz), slow bus speed (66 MHz) or even slow disc controllers (ALi, where are you?) haha.

Will slow burning improve your data quality? Not a chance! BUT IT DOES improve your DATA INTEGRITY!

(ouch!)

Am I being clear?

[vitualis]

People who recommend burning SVCDs/VCDs at low speeds like 4x for supposed greater SVCD/VCD playback quality have no basis or evidence for their advice. Perhaps this was usable advice for slower systems with older CD burners but it is not the case now.

Actually there is plenty of evidence and plenty of basis for this if you take into consideration of a caveat. Perhaps you just don't know it?

Many DVD players are not designed to play CD-R/W media and for these players, recordable media playback is somewhat touch and go. Many subtle factors can affect playback -- including disc brand/batch AND burn speed.

What many people have described is that higher burn speeds lead to unreadble discs on these stand-alone players while lower burn speeds worked (or worked better). This is by no means universal as at least one person has described a higher burn speed being better in his case.

Basically, a lower burn speed seems to be read better (and hence better quality playback as less sectors are being dropped) on some DVD players (those that aren't designed to read CD-R/W media). This is not a universal phenonmenon and you should test your own machine.

If you stand-alone player IS designed to read CD-R/W media, you shouldn't have any problems with discs burnt at the maximum possible speed (assuming that it is burnt properly of course).

BTW, I love my 24x LiteOn burner too!

Regards.

[boss]

You're lucky! i can only burn vcd's at 4x because if i burn them any faster my dvd player won't play them properly.
what about burning music cd's at that speed? won't you get loads of clicking noises?