how do you determine which burn speed is best

s k r o o t a y p wrote on 3/17/2006, 12:37 PM

~what should one consider when choosing a burn speed in DVDA?

my computer is devoted to VMS alone so can i afford to always go with the faster speed of the two or can picture quality be affected?

thanks!

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 3/17/2006, 12:58 PM

It used to be slower was better, but with todays media, a faster burnspeed is often less error prone.

Chienworks wrote on 3/17/2006, 4:13 PM

This is digital data. Burn speed cannot affect image quality. Either the bits are there to be read and they will be read exactly as they were written, or they can't be read at all. What can happen with higher burn speeds is you might get a disc that can't be read in some older players. But if it can be played, it will look the exactly the same on the screen whether you burn at 1x or 16x.

Spot|DSE wrote on 3/17/2006, 4:30 PM

I'm not referring to image quality when I referred to errors. I'm referring to digital errors that can affect whether the disc will playback or not, or will skip or freeze.
I guess I missed the relationship of image quality to burn speed.

s k r o o t a y p wrote on 3/19/2006, 5:57 PM

is it probably best to go with the speed on the DVD disc packaging? (i.e. 8x for 4.7G disc)

stevec5375 wrote on 3/20/2006, 5:24 AM

All DVD and CD players have built in algorithms that attempt to reconstruct the data that might be "messed up" when being read from the disc. I would imagine that the players ability to reconstruct missing bits would be a factor in this.