thank you laddyboy and Jigen,due to your quick responses im on my way to more great burns,i picked up the sony dru-820a,dual layer double layer dvd+r burner,what a great burner this is,now i put a movie in my dvd player,and blank in my dvd burner,and zap,i have a copy between 20 and 30 minutes,im using 8x speed,with verbatim 16x dvd+r.another great fix to my problems,and by the way,my homepage is gonna be this site now, have a good day,and if you need any help just ask me,lol j/k cya Odie241
Glad to help odie! I'm glad things are working for you. BenQ makes a very nice drive that should burn many many discs over it's lifetime.