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Posted by Tarkus on 11/18/07 19:17
Paul Heslop wrote:
> Amused wrote:
>
>> Just a passing observation, with no real support. I have an 18-x rated Sony
>> burner. I routinely, manually re-set the burn speed down to at least 12x
>> and usually 8x because I was getting too many disks that would appear to
>> burn, but fail to play. (Disks are almost exclusively Verbatim. I have
>> learned my lesson about buying cheap disks.) I have both Nero and Roxio, as
>> well as some others and while the default burn speed is usually,
>> "automatic", they do allow a Manuel set.
>>
>> It may be annoying not to be able to burn at rated speeds, it's MUCH more
>> annoying to have to re-burn disks because they won't play.
>>
>> James...
>
> Yeah, I hear conflicting advice about this too. I tend to let the
> machine, or should I say software, choose the speed nowadays but on my
> CD burners I almost always found I had to reduce the burn speed, no
> matter how fast CD-R were claimed to be able to write.
Why? I've always found that selecting "Max", my burner and software are
more than capable of negotiating the actual maximum speed available.
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