My Pioneer seems to burn only at 1x?

[nutt318]

I was wandering if im doing somthing wrong or not. I have Ulead DVD Movie Factory, It is the trial version. I was wandering if this is why its not burning at 2x. If anyone knows let me know.

Thanks

[musher70]

discs

[solarfox]

The Pioneer DVD-R/RW drives will only do 2X burn on media which has been certified for higher-speed burning; otherwise, it always defaults to 1X. This is something built into the drive's internal firmware, and can't be overridden by the burning software.

TDK is one such 2X-certified brand that I've used with the Pioneer drive. Que!, and Apple, also work at 2X.

[nutt318]

I bought some memorex dvd-r media from best buy, it said that its Version 2.0 disc. Unless it actuall means 1x. Im not sure, i was just curios if I could burn a dvd faster. It takes about an hour to copy a dvd. But let me know if I have the right media.

[snowmoon]

Version != speed.

Pioneer has only certified a couple of blank media for 2x writing. If the drive does not detect these excat type of media it will only burn at 1x.

[solarfox]

Version 2.0 simply means that it conforms to the DVD Forum's specification for 4.7Gb write-once DVD-R media -- as opposed to the older Version 1.x, which was/is limited to 3.9Gb. (Obviously, you don't find much 1.x media around anymore, at least not in the DVD-R(General) market. You can still find DVD-R(Authoring) in 3.9Gb form, though.)

Of course, just to confuse the issue, the "latest" version of rewritable DVD-RW media is Version 1.1, which is also 4.7Gb media. Hence, my firm belief that all technical-standards committe members should be required to submit themselves, once a year, to a public bitch-slapping.

In any case, as Snowmoon says, the Version number has nothing to do with the recording speed.

[Skorpio]

Atleast yours will burn. I cant get my pioneer 104 to burn CD's it burns DVD's fine though except for screeners. I have tried so many aspi drivers for it nothing seems to work.

[job345331@hotmail.com]

hi,
solarfox makes a good point about the public bitch slapping- it should be mandatory, and possibly televised for charity.
i personally found that using two different types of dvd-r media that were both rated for 2x speed on my pioneer both only resulted in 1x burns.
these were intenso and general mirror.
job345331

[Luis.clemencio]

There is one firmware update on the Pionner site to allow High speed writting.
I already installed but till now always I get only 1x.
I'm using only "Intenso".... may be it is the reason....

PS. I insert annother post concerning Ulead DVD Worshop. Please see it!