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What speed do you burn DVDs at?

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"Blank media should always be burned at the rated speed, as that's what the dye is rated and tested at."

B:

"It's better to burn it slower and know you'll have a disc that works perfectly rather than one that skips and jumps all over the place when you try and play it."

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Almost all discs are rated at least 16x now and I have a 16x burner, but I always burn at 12x to be on the safe side. Generally, I burn at one speed under the maximum rating for CDs and DVDs.

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I burn all my 16x Verbatim dvd+r discs at 4x and all my Verbatim dvd+r dl discs at 2.4x.
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For any given media ID, I use the slowest speed which my drive's firmware supports.

With my current batch of YUDEN000/T02 discs, my drive's firmware offers 8x, 6x & 4x. I choose 4x.
With a previous batch of RICOHJPN/R01, the same firmware version offered 4x & 2x. For those discs I chose 2.
The first discs I ever bought were CMC_MAG/R01. Firmware offered 2x & 1x, so I chose 1x.

My (employer's) laptop has a DVD burner, although I don't use it for burning since it doesn't support book-type bitsetting.
Its firmware offers 8x, 6x, 4x & 2.4x for the same YUDEN000/T02 media.

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I have read so many contradictory reports of the merits of various burn speeds online that I no longer know which to trust --  many of them backed with seemingly-convincing bitrate graphs that apparently demonstrate x, y and z.  Despite sustained periods of experimentation with both high and low speed burns, I experience failed DL burns -- by which I mean burns that fail Imgburn's verification process, and which I therefore discard -- with equal frequency at high and low speeds. 

I currently burn Verbatim DL at 2.4x speed (despite the fact that the discs are the new 8x discs, not the old 2.4x discs), which seems to produce fewest burns - though that might be my imagination.  I find it hard to have any opinion on the matter, other than the opinion that the issue polarises people and I fail to see the justification for having deeply-held convictions either way.

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I always burn Single Layers at 8x and Dual Layers at 4x - don't see the point burning any faster for the QC operator to fail the disc for playback issues.

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Since I buy the first DVDs I can find for use here, I burn at the slowest speed it will let me.  Burnt all of Ady's edits, never had a problem.

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I burn SL at 4x and DL at 2.4x and never a problem.

One DL disc failed imgburn's verification, but I watched the entire way through and the disc was fine.  Weird.