Question regarding stability with 16x burners

[BurningTorch]

For sometime now I have been considering upgarding my 8x burner to a 16x burner. However I have some questions:

1. What is the recommended burning speed to insure that a movie you are burning for example will be skip/freeze free? I currently have burned more then 450 DVD's and have not had a coaster yet.

2. If someone can please recommend a drive to me that would be greatly appericated, I am currently looking at getting the BenQ DW1620 Double Layer 16X DVD ± R/RW DVD Burner, however I would really like to receive some imput to wheather or not it is a good burner.

3. If anyone can recommend a good type of media to use in the burner it would also be appericated, if I do get the BenQ is the BenQ 8X DVD-R Blank Media 4.7GB General Purpose DVDR Discs be a good choice?

Your oppinon is greatly appericated.

[SkaarjMaster]

1. What burner do you have now? If it's a 4x/2x DVD burner, then 2X would be the safest. I would just go one notch down from the fastest speed for the media type and you should be fine I think.

2. There are reviews of the BenQ DW1640 (get this one instead) at CRDLabs

http://www.cdrlabs.com/reviews/index.php?reviewid=270

and also reviews of the NEC 3540A elsewhere. I believe these are the best DVD burners right now. I'm sure some others can be thrown into the mix though.

3. Get all Taiyo Yuden media from Rima.com and you can't go wrong!

[blutach]

Read the Golden Rules of Burning in my signature.

I use an LG4163B and it's terrific. Verbatim DL disks and Ritek R03s for my DVD-5s.

Regards