Jonathan Bones
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ZeroX said:haha are you confused yet
Yes. More so than I was when I started this thread, I think.
ZeroX said:haha are you confused yet
horndude said:ok, like i said CHECK THE SPECS of the DVD burner your looking at, some DONT have the the SAME burn speeds for different formats,some do, they are different often times
for example my dvd burner will only burn "-" disks at 4x or slower no matter what but it will do "+" disks at 8x, has nothing to do with the disk itself, its the burner,as long as it has a disk rated at enough speed I can burn them as fast as the burner will go for THAT format
here, take a look at that, its labeled 16X +/- but it ISNT 16X for BOTH + and -
as far as burn speeds, 8x- IS THE SAME AS 8x+ as far as actual burn time, the disks themselves ARE PHYSICALLY DIFFERENT, both can be played by most dvd players
horndude said:8X in either format is the same amount of burn time: total data divided by (burn rate * 1.385MB/sec)------->its a measure of how fast the disk gets data written to it
CDROMS 1X=150KB/sec
DVD's 1X=1.385MB/sec
...just like the link to that one at tiger direct, go back a page on that site and its listed as 16x-/+, but in "-" format it will only do 12X
horndude said:what I meant by the speed difference is IN GENERAL again for the 3rd time MOST BURNERS CANNOT BURN DISKS IN BOTH + and - FORMATS at the same MAX SPEED, SO it is true in GENERAL that using "+" format will be faster all else being equal, just lie with CDRW's you cant burn them as fast as a CDR in most cases, the disk wont do it, and neither will the hardware
you are making this way more complicated than it needs to be