i am useing clonedvd. not dvd2. and it takes me about 45 mins on the ave. to burn something. useing anydvd and clonedvd. i have a Hp 1101 desktop.celeron340(p) 2.93ghz 512mb ddr, with hp 740i 16x dual layer light scribe dvdwriter. maybe i am doing something wrong for it to take me this long but i am happy with this seeing it is faster than what i have been doing