Page 1 of What are the fastest disks to use in a 16X drive?

I have always used 4X disks in my sony dvd 16X+RW DW-R56A drive. It has just dawned on me that maybe I should use faster disks - my only concern is will they then work in my home dvd player?

Thanking you in advance

Best Wishes

Dan

Hi

i`ve used 8x orange bulkpak disks with no adverse effects in my pioneer 108.

they play fine in both my sony DAVS300 and my JVCRM10

Ste.

........is that gasoline i smell?

The speed you record at will make no difference to whether it will play in your DVD player or not, so use the fastest you can find. I guess x16 speed discs are still at a premium price, but x 8 speed are down to the 20p each and upwards price for decent media.

Might be worth doing a bit of research forst though, some DVD drives are not happy recording at the stated speeds with certain brands-The Datawrites have this problem-I`ve got two x8 speed recorders, and x8 speed Datawrites will only burn at x4 speed, but this is not true on all drives, some will happily burn them at full speed.


Check out your drive on www.videohelp.com and see what brands people have had problems with (if any)

i have just bought a pioneer 109 with the firmware update to 1.09 and to my suprise when i used some ridata dvd-r 8 x they burned at 12x. ihave haven`t tried any faster ones as yet. the firmware update means dual layer speeds of 2x 4x 6x
using dvd-r using dual layer dvd+ speeds 2x 4x 6x