Infoman: in your post #7 you said that you use the cheapest DL media that you can find, well for one thing you will find is that some movies won't burn using cheap media plus down the road the cheap media that you are using will not play at all as they use very cheap dye, It has been recommended over and over in many forums in order to get good quality burns to use good media such as Verbatim DVD+R DL. but each to their own I guess, remember you get what you pay for. Also there is a blank media forum on here. Good Luck