Would Appreciate Recommendation for Reliable DVD+RW

[Novice20]

I purchased Sony DVD +RW disks and thought they were working OK. I had recorded a second time on all of them. But I was just trying to dub from the Mag 513 recorder HDD to the DVD and got an error "3" message that it could not record to the disk (which then locked up the recorder for a couple of minutes regardless of which button I pushed). I had dubbed one show to the disk yesterday but there was more than enough space left on the disk to accomodate the high speed dub (and it wasn't an "out of space" message, anyway).

This was only the third recording on the disk so that should not have happened (when I delete the titles on the disk so that I can dub to it again, the Mag appears to actually be writing to the disk for about two minutes. Can that be affecting its re-usability?)

I would appreciate if someone could recommend a more reliable brand of DVD +RW that will last more than two uses.

Thank you.

[hech54]

I've never found reliable RW discs.

[johns0]

Verbatim.

[dragonkeeper]

I would consider verbatim to be the most reliable of the RW disk (not as reliable as +R or -R disk IMO), but I wouldn't use RW for for long term storage only for testing purposes.

[jman98]

In general NOTHING beats Verbatim for any RW use but my experience is that even Verbatim's DVD+/-RW discs will occasionally go bad before their time. However, I think you will have a lot less problems than with Sony.

[jagabo]

I have ~12 year old Verbatim DVD+RW discs that work fine. Some were written to once and all the files on them can be read and are intact (comparing multiple backups). Others have been rewritten to dozens of times and still work fine (usually temporary video files). The only failures I've had have been because of scratches. Of course, that doesn't mean their current discs are just as good.

[Novice20]

Thank you everyone for your recommendations. Seems that Verbatim is the choice.

By the way, I do not keep permanent files on these disks. I use them only to move recordings from the Magnavox HDD to my PC (as AVI), where they are kept permanently, because they didn't put a PC interface on the Magnavox.