On 1 Jan 2006 at 11:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One thing is, 8X has disappeared from the shelves of my local CompUSA. While > you can still find them on the Net, they are disappearing from local retail. > So I have bought another drive to do 16xes. 4xes are pretty much unobtainable > now except for RW (read/write). And you can mainly find those on the Net. DL > (dual layer) seems cool, but most DVD writers still write DL slow. And the > discs > are expensive. So I don't think it's worth it. At least for now.
I believe that the speed rating is the maximum rate that the disc can be reliably written too. The writer can recognize the medias maximum write rate and also the writers maximum capability and will set the parameters in the authoring package to suite. I can consistently reliably write 8x and 16x media in my 2x and 8x writers. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
