CD Recording. 2nd Question!

[matt_london]

What does 50x, 16x, 8x etc mean on blank cd's?ThanksMatt

[wideboy]

The original speed of CDROMS etc was 1x where "The "x" stands for the
transfer of 150 KB of data per second". As speeds increased, they were labelled
a twice (2x) this data transfer rate or 4x etc.
See 
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/2002/CDBurning.asp

[matt_london]

I've just bought some discs that are 50x. Will my recorder have to be able operate at that speed?

[fo3nix]

this depends what speed your drive can handle...

[WoWo]

It's the maximum write speed for the CD. CD drives have a speed rating as wideboy says which is the speed at which the disk rotates and ultimately the speed with which the data is transfered.

You CD drive will normally have a maximum reading speed and a maximum writing speed (not always the same). However, the speed on the disk is really measure of the quilty of the CD (in general), on most CD writing software there will be the option to slow the speed of the drive down to an appropriate level.

With regards to disks with a higher speed than your drive then thats not a problem, the recorder can write to the disk at a lower speed without a problem.