I've found the Taiyo Yuden DVD-Rs to be more reliable than other brands I'd tried. With some other brands, I was having as much as 15% "failures," defined as any noticed visual problem not present in the original. With the T-Y Premium DVD-Rs, it's down to 1-2%. On my current spindle of 100, I've used about 75 and had no noticed problems. This reflects only my personal usage and is not intended as any institutional endorsement of any product.
Mike -- mrichter@xxxxxxx http://www.mrichter.com/