Are the new 4x discs better or just faster than the 2x discs?

[jacetx]

I bought a pioneer 105 burner and I bought a 25 pack of 2x riteks and my burner wouldn't even recognize the discs. It will recognize some dvd-rw discs and some fujifilm dvd-rs that I have. I was wondering if I should try the 4x ritek discs? If the only difference between the 2x or 4x is just speed then I won't waste my time. But if the 4x discs are better all around then i'll give them a shot. Anyone know what I should do?

Thanks for any help.

[gooki]

If your burner won't even recognise the ritek discs, then I'd seriously look into the fact they may not be true riteks.

[Doom9]

well.. Riteks are not officially approved 2x discs by Pioneer so go figure. There's in fact no standard for 2x discs whereas there's a standard for 4x discs. Therefore I'd say it's safer to buy something corresponding to a published standard.

[alexnoe]

Therefore I'd say it's safer to buy something corresponding to a published standard.These 2x Riteks certainly correspond to the public standard for 1x speed DVD-R(G) discs...so if they fail at 1x, there are exactly 2 possible reasons: bad discs (not true Ritek, faked ID) or broken writer

[atreides93]

My dad just bought a Pioneer 105 and it works fine with Ritek G03's (1x) media. So hopefully for you, you just got bogus Ritek's.