Posted by Paul Heslop on 11/18/07 19:09

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.

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