i have toast 6 and burn at 2x. the other options are best and 4x.
i was wondering if even at 2x i'm losing quality on my burned dvd?
If you don't see skips or pixelation, you're not losing quality (those are the "losses" you get). What can happen at higher speeds is that a pit doesn't get fully burned, causing problems. It's not as if you'll get lower resolution, or less fully-saturated colors, or anything like that. (This is digital - either you get the bit correctly or you don't. the only choices are 1 and 0.)
To ensure a good burn, unless you're buying a huge lot of blanks from the manufacturer (Verbatim, Memorex, Sony, etc., just sell them, they don't manufacture them, and they each buy from many different manufacturers - you can even get parts of the same lot with different brand names on them), and it pays to test a dozen of them or so, the best bet is to burn at the slowest speed you can. Good blanks will burn at any speed, cheaper blanks will have problems at higher speeds (speeds approaching the speed they're rated at). Some "high speed" blanks can't burn well at anything more than about 4X.
15.March, 2009 um 10:39 am
The slower speed takes longer, but burns at a higher quality.
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15.March, 2009 um 11:12 am
If you don't see skips or pixelation, you're not losing quality (those are the "losses" you get). What can happen at higher speeds is that a pit doesn't get fully burned, causing problems. It's not as if you'll get lower resolution, or less fully-saturated colors, or anything like that. (This is digital - either you get the bit correctly or you don't. the only choices are 1 and 0.)
To ensure a good burn, unless you're buying a huge lot of blanks from the manufacturer (Verbatim, Memorex, Sony, etc., just sell them, they don't manufacture them, and they each buy from many different manufacturers - you can even get parts of the same lot with different brand names on them), and it pays to test a dozen of them or so, the best bet is to burn at the slowest speed you can. Good blanks will burn at any speed, cheaper blanks will have problems at higher speeds (speeds approaching the speed they're rated at). Some "high speed" blanks can't burn well at anything more than about 4X.
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15.March, 2009 um 11:41 am
YES it will surely affect the quality. According to this article: http://www.easydvdburning.com/articles/general/how-to-prevent-dvd-burn-errors.html
high speed burning is one of the leading causes of burning failure. So set the burning speed as low as possible to get the best quality.
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15.March, 2009 um 12:13 pm
of course, it will affect the quality
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