skyjedi2005 said:

I think the DVDs are good enough to gift to people.

My bro has an HD set and no blu ray player, but i think he will be pretty surprised with your V3.

Still trying to find a company with reliable dual layer media since practically all verbatims are now made in India and are junk. 50% failure rate for some people is not acceptable.

Guess i will have to pay a pirates ransom and get some expensive archive quality dvd9's which match up to the quality of the dvd5's of taiyo yuden.

I suggest just doing a little research. JVC DL's made in Japan worked just as good as the Verbatims people talk about and they are just as reliable for the long term. They don't cost as much as the Verbatims but it doesn't mean they are crap either.

Do a search on eBay....10pk's of these are very affordable. You chose what works best for you. It's the best way to know.

If you are having such high failure rates your drive may need a firmware update or it just doesn't work well with certain discs. I've found that my HP laptop drive kinda sucks when it comes to burning any kind of discs so I use my desktop for that and just use the laptop for read only. As crazy as it sounds it can sometimes be the simplest of things causing errors.