I'm also old school. I always burn audio & vcd at the minimum speeds possible on the particular burner I'm using. But make available a porche with a capability of 250mph in 20 or so secs & how many people will want to hold back. It's marketing, they say it will burn at 50 or so speed so that's what everybody wants to do. Despite it's pushing both the burner & the media to their limits. Graphics (which includes both audio & video) are the most difficult of all medias to burn to CD (i.e.: it is the most easily corrupted b/c of its complexity & difficulty for a cd burner to read & write simultaneously.) Multiply this by 50 times & you might have a problem, it's fine for text files & stuff though.