media: speed rating’s impact on reliability

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If you’re curious about DVD burn quality, just download a tool such as the free Nero DVD/CD Speed. This program analyzes the information on a DVD and can show the error rate at different places on the disk.

Keep in mind that every DVD throws out lots of errors, just because of the nature of the process. Correspondingly, the DVD standard includes a remarkable degree of error-correction on multiple levels, so that even a disk with many errors will deliver a perfectly accurate final result. With the Nero tool you can see for yourself just how many errors there are. I agree that Taio Yuden disks are about as good as DVD-R gets.

BTW I always record at 8x. There’s nothing to be gained by recording slower, and you lose time.