RecordNow 7.3 burning process?

[MaxBlack]

I aborted a burn of a VIDEO_TS folder to a Verbatim 16x DVD+R (a Data disc burn in RN terms) during the "Verify" stage of the process. I had been sitting at the PC watching it burn and impulsively cancelled during the "verifying" stage, deciding instead to use Nero CD-DVD Speed to scan the disk for errors. Well, the Nero scan did indeed show a couple bad blocks, right at the very end of the disc, and I wonder if it's possible that RecordNow is not "done" writing to the DVD until after it's done verifying. Does anyone know?

It turns-out that while Nero CD-DVD Speed ScanDisc "hangs" at the 92%mark of this disc, it plays fine to-the-end on my PC, and in at least one of my STB players. So I guess the disc is OK after all.

[MaxBlack]

I burned it again, letting RN's "Verify" go all-the-way, and ended-up with RN reporting errors, and there are indeed some bad blocks at the very end of the disc. Very odd, I have never had troubles before w/RN7.3 and Verbatim discs (these are MCC004 IIRC).

I have to question the firmware at this point (using Buffalo 8.57). Hard to imagine I have a bad cake of media...

[BJ_M]

bad media sounds like -- try a different brand before anything else

or bad handling ...

[MaxBlack]

I made 3 discs in a row at Max speed (16x) which would not verify properly (though the discs were still useable i.e. the bad sectors were at the very end of the movie credit sequence). Then I tried at 12x speed and I got a perfect disc for the first time.

These Verbatims are Inkjet-printable but otherwise show the same as some non-printable 16x I bought (MCC004, both) but the non-printables burned at Max no problem.

I guess I will suffer with this 100-disc cake I bought by burning at 12x from now on.