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ScottW wrote on 11/10/2005, 1:41 PM
The burn surface should be the same regardless of the speed since it relates directly to the amount of material. With small projects (under 1GB) you can run into situations where some burning software will burn a minimum of 1GB and other software will only burn what you have (burning at least 1GB is usually done because some players won't play a DVD with less than 1GB of material).

IMO speed of the burn isn't as important as how well the drive burns. Some drives just burn poorly at any speed. I've read that burning at 4x or 8x is better than 1x or 2x because there is less jitter - don't know if this is true or not.

I routinely burn at 8x and have never had a DVD returned because of the burn speed - have had a few -R's come back because of booktype issues on older players, but never because of burn speed.

--Scott
Dan Sherman wrote on 11/10/2005, 7:18 PM
Used to have pioneer burners.
But the latest one installed by the computer shop is an LG.
Seems to do OK.
Any preference?
ScottW wrote on 11/10/2005, 8:14 PM
I've been bunring with LG's (4 set, converted recently to 7 set) and Pioneer - no complaints with either. The robot with the Pioneer gets "picky" sometimes, but as of yesterday when I brought the 7 LG's on-line the robot (Bravo 2) seems to be worried about employment and is doing better (actually, I think the robot has a heat issues as I've been working it overtime lately - 2000+ burns in the last 2 weeks). The LG's were picked based on the reviews at cdrinfo.com

--Scott
Dan Sherman wrote on 11/11/2005, 6:12 AM
If the LGs can do that kind of work,---they'll serve me well.
Thanks Scott.
craftech wrote on 11/11/2005, 6:49 AM
I have a duplicator filled with NEC ND-3520A burners. They all work flawlessly. NEC also has a newer model now. NEC ND-3540A.

Here are the reviews and ratings for the different burners. Newegg has the NEC burners for under $40.

John