thus John R Pierce spake: > RedShift wrote: >> Burning at a slower speed usually does NOT increase burn quality. >> You may have a bad writer or bad DVD R's. Use DVD-R's for maximum >> compatibility. >> > > not quite. with modern high speed DVD burners, like 16X and such, > burns faster than 8X are burned in a CAV mode (constant angular > velocity) where the data transfer rate speeds up as it gets farther > along on the disk. I've found the read error rate is significantly > higher towards the end (outer tracks) of full DVDs burned this way, > but disks burned at 8X are CLV (constant linear velocity), where the > RPM drops as its burning to maintain a constant data rate, and on > disks burned this way, I get far fewer read errors. FWIW, speaking about Audio stuff one can actually *hear* it. Really. Here's some good information on speeds etc, too: http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/media/dvd-media-concepts.htm HTH, Timo