DVD Writer

mark_steps

My current one is a 4 Speed. So as you can imagine, it is dead slow. It takes almost an hour to do an hour long episode/movie.

Im looking for say a 16/32 speed at a reasonable price...ie under £45. Am i right in thinking i can gave a 32 speed writer-yet if the disc is a 4speed, it will only burn at 4 speed?

Does anyone have any recomendations for which writer to go for?

Ta

T4i

Hi,

I think the leading write speed for DVD is 16x at present.

This Asus comes in at £49.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/buyer/reviews/69424/asus-drw1604p.html

And yes you are correct, if you have a 8x writer using 4x discs then 4x should be only possible. This can be slightly misleading too, my DVD writer is a 4x writer but its a lite-on so plenty of 3rd party firmwares for it, this has made it a 8x writer. I've used 4x discs (riteks) and they burned at 8x fine....

Good quality media usualy burns at higher speeds than advertised. You can download free tools to analise media and find its highest write speed.

brummybloke

1 hour to do a 1 hour dvdr? you either have not updated the aspi layers, have selected the wrong speeds, not updated the drivers or are using the wrong speed dvdrs.

x 4 should take 15 minutes ( in theory) for 1 hour of film.

a x 4 dvdr will only burn at x4, i am guessing you have a pioneer 104 or 105, you need to update the firmware for it to work at x 4.

for £25 you should be able to get a dvdr x 16.

brummybloke

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=963#reviews

this one is £20

rich_jtg

And on the same website T4i pointed out, there is a round-up of the latest ones

tomd84

you cant burn the discs any faster then stated on the disc!
Check out ebuyer.co.uk

Thanks Tom :-)

T4i

tomd84 wrote:

you cant burn the discs any faster then stated on the disc!
Check out ebuyer.co.uk

Thanks Tom :-)

Yes you can! I had a handful of 4x discs and they burnt at 8x. No problems at all!

sco0ter

Me too... I have had 8X disks burn at X12

T4i

http://www.cdspeed2000.com/files/NeroCDSpeed_4511.zip

Nero Speed tool, under disc info tab it will tell you the proper write speed support.

tomd84

T4i wrote:

Yes you can! I had a handful of 4x discs and they burnt at 8x. No problems at all!

What software do you use to do this?!

Thanks Tom :-)

T4i

Nero, only ever use Nero as its flawless software.