High speed burn claims

Milarky

£9.99 offer from SVP.co.uk

This AD-7173A model offers impressive DVD writing speeds and includes Labelflash technology to give your DVDs an attractive finishing touch. With 18x writing speeds on offer for DVD-R/+R media, 4.7GB of data can be burned in around 5 minutes.

But my query is can you really write 4.7GB in 5 minutes? My DVD burner will probably require 80 minutes to finish a DVD write-once disk (and it seems to depend on the medium used too?). So does the above claim rest on various assumptions unlikely to born out in practice?

Thanks

geewhiz

The 5 minutes will be for a data disc so it's not converting video etc and the disc would need to be an 18x disc too.

If for example your blank dvd is only a 2x disc then that's as fast as it's going to burn at.

Stompa

My 4 year old DVD writer manages 4.7GB in about 15 mins.....

viddy

my LG external dvd burner can do 4.7GB dvd (data- divx movies) in less than 5 minutes at 18x speed. yes it can,
EDIT sorry just realised i was talking about cd's dvd takes about 15 minutes