Smart Buy 50 Pack Dvd+r Dl 8.5gb 8x DVD Plus R Double Layer Printable White Inkjet Blank Data Recordable Media 50 Discs Spindle

The success rate is approximately 50% with this brand. Almost every second disc comes with the failure message. Even at the speed 4, they'd been failing. I think it pays off buying perhaps more expensive but better quality discs.

After I ran into problems with Verbatim's similar disks failing repeatedly in all drives I tried, I switched to these disks that are about half the price and not one has failed in any drive I used. I am hoping they will hold up with time and read properly years from now, but at least they record properly. They DO have a strong odor! But it fades away with exposure to air over time.UPDATE OCT 10, 2020:I've used the first 50 disks and received another shipment. I believe I had maybe 2-3 failures out of 50, so not bad. This is far better than other brands I've used. It is still too early to see if the dye fails over the years and cannot read. I always make a blu-ray and DS DVD of things I save to help insure I'll have something readable in the future, and I've found my old PS3 still reads media disks the best without heat causing the dye to change and not read during a 2 hour playback. Other players usually start having read problems due to heat affect on the disk. I hope these are durable.

I authored a DVD for dual layer and thought these cheap discs would be worth a try, even at one-half the listed burn rate to be safe. After about 12 attempts, I could not get a burn to get past a few percent, assuming it started at all: this is 100% fail rate. I've never burned coasters with other media, DVD or Blu-ray. I was able to burn random files such as for data backup, but I didn't buy these for backup: I need the dual layer for long DVD programs. I've moved on to premium DL-DVD media, not terribly surprised at what I got for what I paid here.UPDATE: My desktop PC burner (Pioneer BDR-203) just didn't like this media. I upgraded ny review to four (4) stars after trying these on my laptop's burner. What do you know? I got perfect burns at 6x burn rate, and ImgBurn verification flagged no errors.

So far I have used up 14 blanks. Of the 14, 12 burned fine and play back fine on my Blu Ray player. But I can't say that they will play OK on someone else player or DVD player. The two that didn't burned properly were due to my computer doing something that caused it to produce a bad burn. It had to do with my old computer, running Windows 7 and its slow response sometime to implement a task in the background while burning. If one have a slow computer like me, you would want to make sure to turn off any task being run in the back ground like your email, or web update that get done in background. All it takes is for your computer to go out of synth with the burn process and your disc will burn wrong. So the bottom line is that I am satisfied with this brand of blanks, which are made in Vietnam, by Ritek, the manufacturer.

These work great when you have a fast enough computer to burn DVDs. The best way to get good results is to have no other programs slowing down the burning process. I still get about 1 in about 7 not working properly. Just leave the computer alone and don't use it for other stuff since any glitches can result in an error. Errors usually occur towards the end of the burning process for these - as some movies are cleared by the system - but fail in the DVD player while playing near the end of the movie. But again, this happens about 1 in 7 so for the price is good, and test each movie. Also make sure you ad chapters in your movies and test each DVD by skipping chapters, if it freezes while skipping chapters you have a bad DVD. I burn long 2 hour and 45 minute movies for clients and these handle it well, though I would suggest no more that 2.5 hours for better results.