Panasonic 95 works with 8 speed media!

[1439nick]

I've been using Ritek x8 printable disks, from bigpockets.co.uk, on my panasonic 95 which are about a fiver for a spindle of 25.

They seemed fine, with a very low failure rate, when i used them on my PC and they seem to work fine in the panasonic too. I read on this Forum though, that 8 speed media will not work with dvd recorders so i was a bit perplexed!


Am i taking unneccassary risks using these disks, they seem to work fine on my panasonic and my Marantz (though i lent one to a friend and he said there was the odd glitch here and there on his, but he was using a £20 Asda DVD player!)

Is it safe to carry on or is there more reliable and as economical 4 speeds recommended out there. I gather Ritek have a good reputation and bigpockets.co.uk seem very efficient. Any thoughts out there?

[JohnG]

I use 8x verbatim (pastel ones) on my E85 with no problems so far.

[redsox_mark]

I use the same discs as JohnG with my XS32, no problems.
I don't know of any problems using 8X -R discs with a 4X recorder. There are issues with -RW between 2X and 4X, but not with -R between 4X and 8X. My Sony PC recorder is also only 4X max, I asked them about using 8X and they told me that 8X discs should work fine (which they do).

Mark

[Rasczak]

The RDXS32, Ex5 series and Sony 100 series DVD recorders are not entirely 8x DVD-R compatible. However they will still work with many 8x DVD-Rs - there isn't the fundamental compatibility problem as there is with DVD-RW 2x/4x.

[ptek]

Panny Issues related to TDK X8, which have been corrected by firmware, I don't know what the problem was though, if a brand of DVD-R works for you, then stick to it !

[redsox_mark]

The key point, to address the original question, is that if you are using a quality 8X disc and it works, then there is nothing to be worried about.

Mark