https://forum.videohelp.com/ Everything about recordable media such as CD-R/W, DVD±R/W and DVD-RAM. Also about miniDV, VHS, SVHS and others, tape media. Compatibility problems and issues. Also everything about CD and DVD label and LightScribe, LabelFlash printing. en Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:17:00 GMT vBulletin 60 https://forum.videohelp.com/images/misc/rss.png https://forum.videohelp.com/ https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/421235-Does-anyone-still-burn-DVD-media-If-so-what-blanks-do-you-use?goto=newpost Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:17:39 GMT I'm starting this thread to get some ideas on what DVD-R or +R media people are using that is still being made and gives them good burn results.

For several years now I've been using DVD-R TYG03 media sold as "Legend with Pro Professional" DVD-R 16X by "Japan Disc Corporation" through a seller on Amazon for only about $28 per 100 pack (sealed in plastic, does not come on a spindle).

I've burned very many DVD-Rs of this media with about 90-95% great quality discs made, testing every disc with NeroDiscSpeed on an old PC that has a drive which can do quality tests, usually getting results around 84-93%, with an occasional bad disc or two per set of 100, although did get one set that had about 30% bad discs (long story).

Now however, I can no longer get this media. The seller on Amazon has none left and told me that they have been discontinued by the manufacturer.

So I just bought a 100 pack of DVD-R TYG03 on Amazon sold as "CMCpro Powered by TY technology" by another Amazon seller, for about $38/100, which I used to use years ago. Can't recall why I switched to the "Legend with Pro" blanks instead but I might have switched because I started having problems with these "CMC Pros'.

Burning several discs with these blanks today have been giving me really really bad results. I actually suspect that the CMC Pro blanks are at least 10+ years old (or more) which could explain why they are not performing well now, since unused media that sits around for years like this without being made can degrade, especially with more variability introduced with greater chance of poor storage conditions since they are so old. Or could be a case of just getting one bad set now but I can't afford to throw away more $$ on another unusable set like this hoping it will be better.

I'm positive that the problem is not my burner. I burned several discs of the Legend TYs that I still have back to back with the "new" CMC Pro ones and the Legends work & test great but the CMC Pro one I just got have tons of errors. For example, testing with Nero Disc Speed getting a Quality rating of 93 on the Legends with 86,020 PI errors and 3994 PI Failures as compared to a Quality score of 38 with 242,609 PI Errors and 10,365 PI Failures.

Thus I'm asking - what have others found to be generally good DVD-R or +R discs that are still being made today?

Years ago I used to use Verbatims +Rs which were great and affordable but when they started being made in a different country I got so many bad burns I had to stop using them (I cannot recall the exact details now since that was around 10-15 years ago, but think the Taiwan ones were good but found the Made in India ones to be awful). I then tried several other brands like "SMARTbuy" but found they were horrible. And then I started using the CMC DVD-R T-Ys b4 switching to the "Legend with Pro Professional" DVD-R T-Ys that I have been using for several years now.

Thanks for any helpful opinions or recommendations for brands you've had good results with. ]]> Media slipkid https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/421235-Does-anyone-still-burn-DVD-media-If-so-what-blanks-do-you-use