OptoRite at 16x burning obviously something wrong, just curious though.

[JimmyK]

Hey fellas ever since my firmware upgrade, which I didnt even think worked properly, it gives me the option of 16x burning but always defaults to 4x when I say "burn" showing that the disc wont allow the higher speed, why is that? does Nero make simple mistakes like this often in reference to burning speeds? look at the highlighted area

cheers

 

[The-poacher]

Looks like a firmware F*** up U can only burn @ 4 speed on the DVD burners I know so obviously it aint gonna burn @ 16x

Suggest U contact manufacturers re the Firmware!

 

[VIPER_1069]

@ poacher there aint even 16 x DVDr rated media out there either yet lol so even if it was possible it would not be able to write 16x eh bud!?

 

[scarecrow]

Just curious: Do you expect to write on 4X rated DVD-R media with a 4X rated DVD-R machine at 12X or 16X (which is a speed for burning CD-R)?
Also have in mind that 16X on CDR is much slower than 4X on DVDR (2.4 mb/sec versus 5.5 mb/sec), regarding the datastream.

 

[JimmyK]

obviously I dont expect it to burn at such speeds, thats like expecting a pinto to run like a ferrari enzo or something

and I understand the difference in speed ratings for DVD based drives and CD based drives I think its rather obvious that they are in concurrent or analogous relationship to the media being used in them.

BUT there has been hardware out there that has had 50% speed increase with a simple firmware upgrade, such as my old ricoh burner. With that in mind I was curious as to all that could the hypothesized and extracted in speculation from this oddidty. not much though so it seems other then the the previous posts.

It still burns a entire DVD in 15 mins which is more then passing for me.

thank you though for trying to give me further insite. appreciate it.

 

[VIPER_1069]

@scarecrow ... yah know bud i dont get people out there with DVD burners that complain about 2x burn speed !? they forget they are burning 4.7 gig in whole lot less time than it would take to burn 700mb at the same speed with a CDRW burner !? lol