Originally posted by born2ride:

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do you guys have a preference on 8x or 16x?

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the 8x were perfered but now the 16x are up to par with the 8x so my call there equal

Originally posted by aabbccdd:

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Originally posted by born2ride:

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do you guys have a preference on 8x or 16x?

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the 8x were perfered but now the 16x are up to par with the 8x so my call there equal

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can you exlpain this a little. all i know is the 8x means the speed it can be burn at? what else comes into play?

I'm also a +R convert, mainly because all my burners booktype and I've heard that's the best way to insure compatability. Even so, I still have some -R 8x Verbs and TYs around.

Personally, I think i achieve better results with the +Rs but that might be because I use them alot more than the -Rs.

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can you exlpain this a little. all i know is the 8x means the speed it can be burn at? what else comes into play?

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i burn the TYGO2s (8x) at 8x and sometimes 6x the TYGO3s (16x) i burn at 8x also some burn them at 12x but i don't recommed that. if you have the TYGO3s (16x) make sure you have up to date firmware for your drive/burner to support them. quality wise ( TYGO2 vs TYGO3) there equal.

Originally posted by born2ride:

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Originally posted by aabbccdd:

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Originally posted by born2ride:

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do you guys have a preference on 8x or 16x?

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the 8x were perfered but now the 16x are up to par with the 8x so my call there equal

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can you exlpain this a little. all i know is the 8x means the speed it can be burn at? what else comes into play?

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I'm out of my league here, hopefully aabbccdd can explain or someone else, but I've had better results with the 16x media than the 8x (I've mainly got Litey 20x dirves) which is why I prefer the 16x media.

I'd say it's a pretty close call from my experience between -R & +R but compatibility and maybe in my own little world I think the +R booked are a little bit sharper. Correct me if I'm wrong and if it's alphabet i want the correction by Adriana LOL Chris

hobbit
i booktype all my +r also. but lately the +r price are a little higher than -r. my brother only uses -r.. i guess if you have a newer stand alone player it really wont matter.. i have an older one that is fussy and a new one that plays everything i put in it.

the other crazy thing is that none of my boxes are check for booktyping. but the log alway says it is booktyped.
i use shrink,nero, or just recode sometimes. i gave up on try to figure out how there where getting changed.

@born2ride,

I think Shrink and Recode have an override setting for booktyping incase it isn't set in your burner's firmware.

Alot depends on your burners. What do you have???

Originally posted by aabbccdd:

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can you exlpain this a little. all i know is the 8x means the speed it can be burn at? what else comes into play?

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i burn the TYGO2s (8x) at 8x and sometimes 6x the TYGO3s (16x) i burn at 8x also some burn them at 12x but i don't recommed that. if you have the TYGO3s (16x) make sure you have up to date firmware for your drive/burner to support them. quality wise ( TYGO2 vs TYGO3) there equal.

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i must of missed it somewhere but you burn the 8x ones at 8x and the 16x at half speed. why not at 16x? have you had play back issues over 8x?
i have always burt a half the disc speed. never really played around with faster ones..

Cost-wise between the -Rs & the +Rs I think might be because the rest of the world has caught up or passed the US in usage. Most of the rest of the world use mainly the -R format.

Originally posted by hobbit112:

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@born2ride,

I think Shrink and Recode have an override setting for booktyping incase it isn't set in your burner's firmware.

Alot depends on your burners. What do you have???

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Recorder: Version: B109 - HA 1 TA 1 - 7.8.5.0
Adapter driver: HA 1
Drive buffer : 2048kB
Bus Type : via Inquiry data (1) -> ATAPI, detected: ?
Connected to MMC as unknown drive with class-nr : 1
Drive is autodetected - recorder class: Std. MMC recorder

=== Scsi-Device-Map ===
DiskPeripheral : SAMSUNG SP2504C iaStor Port 0 ID 0 DMA: On
CdRomPeripheral : SONY CDRWDVD CRX310S iaStor Port 0 ID 1 DMA: Off
CdRomPeripheral : HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H31N iaStor Port 0 ID 2 DMA: Off

=== CDRom-Device-Map ===
SONY CDRWDVD CRX310S D: CDRom0
HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H31N E: CDRom1
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Hopefully those are SATA drives or connected via a RAID otherwise you might have problems. (Haven't checked I don't immediately recognize them).

I've seen the quality go down going above 8x except for the Lg on the printable Verbs 16x at 12x but even then it's a hit or miss 8x comes out the best for me no matter which burner or media and the difference between burn times isn't worth it to me. The old Plextor just likes to scoot along at 4x and thats the only reason i buy the 8x, tillif and when it ever dies.Chris

Originally posted by hobbit112:

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Hopefully those are SATA drives or connected via a RAID otherwise you might have problems. (Haven't checked I don't immediately recognize them).

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yes they are... you see the dma is off yes?
i believe the main drive i use for burn is and Hitach