DVD burn rate

It seems that the chatter has died off concerning dvd burn speeds lower than the advertised 8x. Here's my attempt at resurrecting it.
My DVD burner is a Matshita DVD-R UJ-846 (hires 15" PB) and I've used it with several types of media (Maxell DVD-R, Sony DVD+R and a noname brand DVD-R) and the maximum burn speed is 2x. Anyone else running into this problem?

Same drive - same PB: Verbatim -R 16x will burn at nominal 8x while TDK/Verbatim -R 8x will burn at nominal 2x only.
The drive seem to be a little bit picky.
Regarding nominal 8x:
Due to technical limitations of slot in drives only 50% will be written all full 8x speed - the other 50% of the disk only at approx 4x - resulting in a over-all 5.6x -6.0x

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