I just got my New Plextor 716A (Retail) from costco canada for 149.00. Brouht it home installed and upgraded the f/w to 1.06 Burned the brand new movie "Spanglish" Seems like good burn. But i have some questions, Hope you all can answer. It took me 41 min to rip(Compress) the movie into hard drive. I used the Maxell (Ricohjapan) media burned at 8X speed. I used Sonic Recordnow delux to burn and took only 7 min to burn the 4.4 gig compressed movie i did not adjust anything in the Plextools (By the way I upgraded the Plextools from 2.17 to 2.21. I am going to rip and burn the "Elektra" next in a DL media.
These are my questions;
1) why its taking 41 min to rip the movie?
2)Plextool doesnt show the speed as Plextor advertising (DVD+Dl and -DL spped 6X) it shows only 4X for +DL and 2X for -DL why?
3) How do I set the Booktype ? Do i need a seperate utilities If so where can I find? Or If Plextools has an option?
After I burn the DVD+DL I will let you all know. Please take some time to answer my questions.