Quality of high speed dual layer DVD ripping?

[HatchetMan]

I notice that with the firmware on my Lite-On, I can rip a dual layer disc up to 8X. With the firmware on my Pio, I can rip up to 12X. Up to 16X for single layer discs on both.

- Do you loose quality ripping a dual layer disc as high as 12X? Are there any downsides, besides wearing the drive out quicker? I thought that I read somewhere that you could (loose quality or something), but didn't see it proven.

[waheed]

Ripping has no effect at all on quality, regardless of speed. Quality is ONLY affacted when re-encoding or compressing the movie.

[stiltman]

Quality only suffers if it can't read the data on the disc, but that's a whole other problem

[Cinemagic]

True that the quality is unaffected by burning speed. However, I have found that some media will burn at a faster rate than the media is rated. Sometimes this is fine, other times I get a bad burn that results in freezing during playback. A re-burn at the media's rated speed gets a good burn.