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One of my burners (a BTC drive) has an issue with TYG01 and TYG02 DVD-R media. Two of my players also choke on TYG02 media, for unknown reasons. This is authentic TYG02 media too. But I'm an anomaly more than anything else. Most people use it, and it burns and plays back great. If I were you, testing a small stack of 10 may be a more prudent choice before committing to 100 or whatever.
My personal favorite media right now is Taiyo Yuden's YUDEN00T002 DVD+R 8x media. Now that is some high class media. It even burns 12x in somr burners, and has no drawbacks in doing it.
For DVD-R, I'm using a stash of no-longer-made PVC001002 Pioneer DVD-R 4x discs, and some older MXLRG02 Maxell 4x DVD-R discs. I also have been using MCC media since 2001, and it's great stuff.
MCC03RG20 Verbatim 16x DVD-R media is top notch. The MCC003 Verbatim 8x DVD+R and MCC004 DVD+R 16x is not bad either.
Your best best these days on both quality and price is to find TYG02 DVD-R (assuming your burner/player is good to go), MCC03RG20 DVD-R, or YUDEN00T002 DVD-R
The MCC you'd probably have to buy in stores (and honestly brick-and-mortar stores are the same price as online stores, sometimes even less), and the TY/YUDEN you could get either in stores or online.
DVD+R media assumes you can burn DVD+R, and that your players can see DVD+R, as it does have a slightly lower compatiblity than DVD-R would. In general, at least.
FutureShop (Best Buy) and Staples (I think that's in Canada) are great places to find Verbatim, Fuji, and Sony, all of which carry these discs. TY is made in Japan, MCC is Taiwanese Verbatim.
Or blankmedia.ca for online.
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