Bummer about having already opened the box. The media rating determines the maximum speed the recorder will allow you to burn at. Kunga On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 02:28 PM, Steve Talkowski wrote: > Odd thing though, I'm using the most recent version of Toast 5.2 and > I'm only able to burn at 1x speed. Does the DVD-R media need to be > rated at 2x? I purchased a 5 pack of SmartDisk 4.7GB DVD-R media when > I picked up my 1GHz Superdrive TiBook 6 weeks ago.