DVD+RW's - increasing the rated burn speed?

[Joe Pineapples]

Hi

Aquired a load of of these, though they're only rated for 4x writing. Having used 6x & 8x normally, just wondering if there's anyway to trick the burner into trying them at anything other than their rated burn speed?.

thx
joe

 

[namuk]

Stick to the rated speed mate as if you do burn at a faster speed you will get errors,Glitches in the video, the data will degrade faster or even not read the disc, ect ,ect. thing is on certain media depends on Dye/version it may say 4x but the disc is best burnt at 2x

not even sure there is overspeed burning programs now, even then i would not bother.

 

[Joe Pineapples]

Just fancied giving it a go to be honest. I always burn 8x with some verbatim's I use, (though that's what they're rated at) and never have any probs.

 

[namuk]

you will with certain media, always use branded now but i have and still got some verbatim's DVD+R that will not burn at rated speed and thats a 50 pack, i usually use DVD-R vertabains ect ..

you could try Imgburn, that tests the disc speed and you could try a higher speed, free software as well ..

i would still not recommend it mate.

 

[ncmoody]

Stick to the rated speed mate as if you do burn at a faster speed you will get errors,Glitches in the video, the data will degrade faster or even not read the disc, ect ,ect. thing is on certain media depends on Dye/version it may say 4x but the disc is best burnt at 2x

not even sure there is overspeed burning programs now, even then i would not bother.

I concur - in fact I never use the max rated speed for burning.

When burning important DVDs I tend to use 16x disks and burn them at 4x, as a result I get very few coasters.