Someone told me that using a lower speed causes errors, because it may not be burning all the data, there is sort of a void, or something that it causes. Sort of like in the old days on tapes, if you recorded to low, you would get noise, if you recorded to high you get distortion. i can see his reasoning, however, we are talking about digital rather than analog, way back when. Someone else on the forums told me to use half of what they are rated for, others say use one speed below the max. I tried to once again to copy 4 dvds on another computer using Nero, burned them at 48 x,it told me it was successful, as usual. Gave them to someone and they told me only one worked on their dvd player, the other 3 did not. Do you think it is the HP discs (using the minus, not the plus) or is the burning speed to high. I was told that Verbatim seems to be compatible w/ just about everything. And also am confused at burning speed to use. Some same too high causes errors, others too low causes errors as well. I was also told that you should burn them at half of the speed of the actual max capacity of the disc. i 'm confused. Please help if you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gary
In all likelihood it's the HP discs and burning way too fast..Yes I agree with others Verbatim are good/reliable media, and FWIW it's what I mainly use..I don't use Ner0, but I do use IMgburn for all my video burns and my typical burns are 8x-12x(IOW ~ half the max rated speed) using Verbie 16x DVD+R's..Sometimes I even burn them at 16x w/o any issues thus far(knock-on-wood).. You are talking DVD blanks, right? you wrote,
Great advice! You can take it right to the bank because it was all golden. I can't add much except to say how burn rates effect the burn. It isn't rocket science. The slower the burn the darker and bigger the burn marks/pits are. Burn too fast and the marks are not readable. Burn to slowly and the burn marks get too big and may form a line instead of the dots. Because the CD tracks are spaced out much more than DVDs, you can burn them real slow. My DVD readers are old and prefer the bigger dots so I burn at 4x even for DVDs. Which is the great truth. Your readers may prefer a different speed of burn than someone else's. Half the recommended burn rate is a great place to start but you really need to experiment on your own if you want to optimize your burns for your equipment.
My main concern is for other people in our ministry, some of which, do not have an idea even what a DVD is, no less burn and terms like that. Compatibly is my main issue here. What am i to do, ask every individual what system they have? Gary
No, that will not even work there will be variations in even the same model. Just burn at half the rated speed. That is a middle of the road number which is what you need in your case. Are these audios or videos? Fix-VTS will improve the readability of videos. Lastly, it is not that Verbatim is compatible, it is that their quality control is better. Because you are burning as a ROM the - and + do not matter. They have to do with more than one burn per disk. Verbatim is the only media you can buy over the counter that is 100% first rate unless you are in Japan. Sony sells first rate and second rate, the rest are either 2nd rate or worse.
