whats quality like at 4x write

[aerodeck]

Hiya -

I'mbuning dvd's at 2x at moment with great playback results. I want to speed the process up. Is it worth spending extra on 4x disks and burning at 4x or shall I just stick to 2x??? Am i gonna get gliching and jumping at 4x?

I only use Ritek grade a disks.
Ta

XPHome
Pionner105 (1.30 firm)
512ddr RAM
2gig P4
60gig HD
8" Penis

[dun4cheap]

I have not had a quality problem. Burn time on my 4x riteks is about 13minutes. Other than that they play just like my g3 riteks.

gl

[psx_pirate]

It depends on the media.... ritek and mirror media are ok but bulkpaq/princo (datasafe 4x red are princo) are crap stear clear of those i dont know about other 4x media coz i havent tried any others (yet).

[aerodeck]

yer tell me about it - I wasted 25pound on red datewite, nothing but glitchs

[Gurm]

Oh help out those of us who shop the sale and clearance rack at Best Buy... how about Verbatim, Fuji, or Imation 4x media? Good? Bad? Indifferent?

- Gurm

[mkelley]

Verbatim and TDK (both bought at Best Buy) work just fine in both my Sony and Pioneer burners (at 4x).

Burning at 4x with a burner that supports it (without hacks) has exactly the same reliability and quality as burning at 2x.

[TBoneit]

I but mainly at Best Buy, Burning my way through the earlier sale $129 for 100 4X TDks right now.

I have used the Fuji, TDK, Verbatim from best buy in my SOny with no problems.

I avoid cheap media and 1X & 2X media as I have limited time to to do several burns in a session. Burn speed can not affect the quality of the burn. If it did than high speed burning would be useless as the data would be unreliable. Video is still data. What affects playback is media quality and compatbility... And I still wonder if burn speed affects drive life, it just seems that a 1X burn that takes an hour would be harder on the drive than a 15 minute burn, but maybe the other way around with regards to laser life. I just don't know.

In other words some players like different media better than others, can be brand or type... In other words it might like TDK but not memorex or it could like -R but not +R.

Hope this helps
Good Luck

[Vejita-sama]

I've gone throught about 60 Princo 4x DVD-R discs at this point and have not had a single problem (when correctly authored and burned, ie. no media problems). I'm not sure if myself and others are just lucky or if it's a system thing, but in my hands there's nothing wrong with princo media.

Since you're going with Ritek anyway it really doesn't matter.

[Bob W]

I've gone throught about 60 Princo 4x DVD-R discs at this point and have not had a single problem (when correctly authored and burned, ie. no media problems). I'm not sure if myself and others are just lucky or if it's a system thing, but in my hands there's nothing wrong with princo media.

Since you're going with Ritek anyway it really doesn't matter.

Lately I have been burning 4x printable Princo's without a problem on my Pioneer 105 burner. At $130 for 100 that's not a bad deal for printable 4x media IMO.