Qosmio F20: burning DVD's works too slowly

my f20 says it's got an 8x speed dvd burner. but i have bought some branded blank dvd's and it will only burn at 2x speed. i have tryed different brands, but they all burn at 2x speed. any ideas please..

I have very good experiences with TDK blank DVDs. I use them since my first notebook with DVD burner. I can really recommend it to you.

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Samsung DVD+RW 4x...
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Hi, I've burned a couple of DVDs using my MacBook
Pro, and although they play OK in the Mac they don't
play in my DVD player or on a PC. Has anyone else
found this? My latest effort was an iDVD movie that
was over an hour long and so I used the 'highest
quality' setting and PAL because I thought that's
what you use for the UK. It all worked quite slowly
as my MacBook Pro doesn't have much free space left.
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