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I've found it best not to use the top-rated speed, but
burning 16X at 12X seems to be OK in one of my PCs, whereas
burning at 16X sometimes gave errors on the verification
pass.

What brand(s) of discs do you prefer, David, and what
brand(s) have you found to be more problematical than others.
As I commented in another post, I haven't had any
speed-related failures since the Roxio 5 CD-R days, none I
can recall with many types of media with Roxio 8.

Jerry,

To be honest, I haven't done a lot of comaprison. The two
100-packs on my shelf right now are marked Verbatim and
Philips 16X DVD-R, but who knows where they were really made?
I did just get a 250GB portable HD, and copied my CDs and DVDs
onto it. All but one disk read OK, and that one disk read in
just one of the three PCs I tried - possibly the one where it
was written. Whether it's false security I don't know, but I
feel I can trust the HD more (I have two).

OK, thanks, David. I'll stick with Verbatim, they seem to be the
most reliable for both my PC and DVRs. Have a grea week!

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HP, aka Jerry

"Never complain, never explain" - Henry Ford II