It's not the media. Linkyo (SuperMediaStore.com) only sells legitimate non-fake Taiyo yuden discs. They go a step beyond, in fact, and try to educate consumers on the difference between legit discs and fakes. All of the markings and other info shows these to be official Taiyo Yuden media. So that's out...
Next comes the drive itself not liking the disc. This is the primary reason TY media is lesser quality than Verbatim media -- a number of drives (be it burners or readers, in computers or DVD-Video set-top players/recorders) will simply barf on a TY disc.
Which drive, you ask? I don't know.
Like many other "expensive big name brand" DVD players, Bose is not likely to inspire confidence that any disc will necessarily play well. The traditionally "reliable" electronics companies like Panasonic, Pioneer, Sony and others put out some real stink-o quality players for many years there. The machines would often barf on discs for any number of reasons, and were often the machine with the most limitations (region-locked, no PAL, no CD, no MP3, no burned discs, etc). So the player being used for the test could be the real culprit. Taiyo Yuden discs are not always the best when it comes to reflective quality.
Failing that, we'd be looking at the burner. Do you know what model SuperDrive this is, the model/name of the actual manufacturer (Pioneer, most likely), and then the firmware being used? My MacBook is not in front of me, and won't be for at least a week or more, and I can't remember offhand how to find out the drive information. I also don't remember if
ImgBurn works well enough in Parallels to give out accurate drive data (worth a try, however).
Of course, none of this really matters. I would be surprised if the discs were bad. But given the situation with the equipment -- unless you want to replace both a burner and a player -- would be to switch to something else that is BOTH reliable and works well.
RITEK is not it. Regardless of the experience with the limited stack of "okay" Memorex burns, I would not tempt fate again. Those discs are not "archival" in any sense. They are good for duplicates, but that's about it. You can replace a duplicate (make another copy!), but you can't always re-create a master or archive disc.
I suggest you move on to VERBATIM DVD+R or DVD-R media. This disc is our top suggestion anyway.
At the moment,
Amazon.com has the best prices on this exact disc. Some links are at
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
I personally suggest these:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B0009YJXMS
I often avoid Taiyo Yuden myself, as two of my burners, and one of my players, absolutely despise those discs. The discs are great, but TY issues are common enough that Verbatim makes for a better choice. You seem to be one of them, too.
