Re: [ARSCLIST] High Speed DVD burners for sound files?

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:15 AM 10/15/2004 -0700, Tom wrote:
> We have been using DVDs for making backups of the sound and image files for
> our Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz collection of Mexican and Mexican
> American Recordings digitizing project. We have burned 100s of DVDs with no
> problem at 2X on a Pioneer DVD burner.
>
> We need to upgrade and see that Plextor and others have burners from 12x to
> 16x. Does anyone have any experience with these? We are running a computer
> with a Pentium 3 1ghz processor.
>
> On another computer I have I have a CD burner that runs at 32x but I get the
> most reliable, no error burns at 12x. Is it going to be similar for DVDs.

I've seen no data - not even any quantity of anecdotal information - on
quality and longevity of DVD-ROM. What I have been told and so far cannot
dispute is that speeds above 4x have proved inconsistent at best. Your CPU
should be adequate if you have software which will work on such a system.


Mike
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