. Always burn at the slowest supported speed.
That is totally wrong (no offense or anything, just trying to stop that rumor). If a disc is certified for 16x and your dvd burner burns at 16x and you burn it at 2x, that's not what the disc was made to handle.

You should burn at somewhere around 70% of the highest speed the disc can take.

If you stay in that area you'll have a better quality burn overall.

Venture over to CDFreaks and you can see all the tests that prove that over burning at the absolutely lowest speed.



But as for the posters problem, we should make sure he didn't download a PAL DVD-R and try to play it in a NTSC dvd player.

If that's the case, it would explain why it plays fine in his computer not his set top dvd player.