Not sure if you ever will see be because I´m in a different country :)

Sure but still doubt it will make sense. My oldest writers BTC DRW 1008IM and Plextor PX-708 have maybe not the mediacodes for actual 16x-media in FW and will write in low speeds with an universal strategy which will not lead to same quality as 8x with an actual LG, LiteOn or Pioneer.

I think I will stay with the speeds I prefer :spoko:

Nah, there are no highspeed BD-R-media available yhich you can burn at 1/8 of specified speed (at least I don´t have seen any 16x BD-media)

thats just reckless driving, I dare u to do in tight bend :P

If u use older/different writer it will write slower, speed is advisory.

Absolutely same thing.

I drive 80 if it is allowed and it´s without danger ;)

Yep, I understand your point a bit but I think it have also a reason why writer-manufacturers not support very low writing speed for high-speed-media. I think 8x should be OK for most 16x-media.

With BD-media it´s a bit different, while my fastest writers support 16x my fastest media is labeled 6x. Here i mostly stay at 4x, but I have some awful media which can´t be burned good overall.

Yes it does, 16x is maximum recording media speed it's NOT advised recording speed. Same like speed limit, just because u have 80 doesn't mean u have to go 80.

Does it make sense to burn 16x-media 2x?

You can manually overwrite speed settings.

Minimum write speed for RITEKF1 and many other 16x is 6x ;)

LG writers mostly only 8x and 16x

But it also depends on the scanner.

Especially LiteOn iHBSx12 is much more sensitive than a LG BH16NS48@WH16NS58 if scanning BD with higher speed

Its funny how it works, recording at 2x makes whole lot of difference as well.

Smartbuy DVD-R 16x
RITEKF1 (Made in Taiwan)
PLDS DVD+-R DH-16ACS JD11

As expected, better result ;)

But I scan since 2013 with LiteOn DVD-writers @8x, to make it comparable with my other scans I need 8x :)

To bad the LiteOn don´t support scan with CLV or P-CAV (like Benq)

Was only a quick test. my normal scanneer since some years is a iHAS 324F

make same test but now 4x speed ;)

Drive gets recognizes as PLDS DVD+-R DH-16ACS JD11

Made a test burn and scan to test this drive

Smartbuy DVD-R 16x
RITEKF1 (Made in Taiwan)
PLDS DVD+-R DH-16ACS JD11
No additional settings/tunings

I ordered a Gembird DVD-SATA-01 ecause on the photo it looks like a LiteOn. First I thought it´s a iHAS 124F but now I get a DH-16AFSH

https://www.gmb.nl/item.aspx?id=13779

I thought the Prem2 was EOL since years, also the eleongated LED

Thank you, I will try it soon :)

This is a digital protection for LiteOn devices that prevents access to the device's ROM.
You cannot flash any software without removing the Areas+ protection for these models.
EEPROM_Utility-6.2.0 / Flash Utility v7 only supports and removes older versions of the ROM protection for LiteOn drives manufactured before ~2018/2019.

Sorry, don´t understand, maybe the automatic translation failed.

Is Areas EEProm Security a program or is thze firmware of the dríve scrambled?