DVD+R DL 8.5GB 8X with Branded Surface - 50pk Spindle, 50 - Disc

My 2009 Sony HDD/DVD Recorder is very temperamental with the type of discs I use and most of the previous brands I brought have all failed on finalising or stopped mid-recording so have been looking for discs that I can use with no problems and these Verbatim DVD+R DL 8.5GB 8X with the AZO Branded Surface have worked perfectly so far.📀👍😀 PRICE - I am happy with the price that I pay for the Verbatim DVD+R DL 50 Spindle Pack on Amazon UK and US PURCHASED I have purchased three 50 spindle packs so far from Amazon UK and am just coming to the end of the second pack and only two of the discs have failed. 📀👍😀 PLAYBACK: PICTURE 📺📺 👍 AND SOUND QUALITY🔊🔊👍 DVD RECORDER/DVD PLAYER: The picture and sound quality is outstanding when played back on my Sony HDD/DVD Recorder and my other Sony Blu-Ray/DVD Player. 👍😀📀 PC: When played back in my HP computer CD/DVD Writer/Player the picture quality is quite grainy but sound is perfect but I am not sure if it is because it is a computer drive or if it is the software I use to play it back on. - I would definitely recommend Verbatim DVD+R DL 50 Spindle Pack 📀✅☑️👍😀 AMAZON UK / AMAZON US I normally order my Verbatim DVD+R DL 50 Spindle Packs from Amazon UK but none were available at the time and as they come from the US I ordered them via Amazon US. AZO RECORDING DYE 📀📀📀📀 Each disc has Verbatim's advanced AZO recording dye so it optimizes the read/write performance so I think that is why these discs have worked perfectly in my DVD Recorder where as other DVD+R DL Discs have not even though I am not an expert. 📀 ☑️✅ - I have not tried using these discs on a computer high speed double layer CD/DVD writer TO NOTE 📝 I did email the seller with my order on Amazon US as 'AZO' is not printed on the discs I have received where as my other discs had. I been reassured by the seller that the discs I have purchased still have the AZO Recording Dye Technology even though 'AZO' is not printed on them.

Thanks to the consensus of reviews here on Amazon I decided to go with these for a huge archiving job that involved digitizing material from VHS cassettes and burning DVDS, as well as cloning and copying older DVDs, using a MacBook Pro and an Imac as two separate workstations in almost constant use for several weeks. These discs worked like a charm, and did so on both machines with a variety of programs including Encore and DVD Ripper pro. And, importantly, I've had no problems with anyone being able to view any of the burned discs, whether they were watching on a computer or via a dvd or blu ray player. One nice benefit of dual layer size dvds that somehow never occurred to me until I started using them is when I decided to use 8.5 size and not restrict some content to fitting on a single layer DVD, I found I was able to get noticeably better quality images. Example, a 90 minute recording on vhs would wind up filling a single layer dvd fully, using Adobe Premiere to capture and edit then Encore to burn - but using the same project with a dual layer dvd as the burn media allowed Encore to do less compression and the end result looked better than single layer dvds I'd burned. This is because instead of having to squeeze these programs to fit 4.7 GB, Encore used the extra space, burning the same program to a size between 5.8 GB and 6.8 GB typically. The end results, when viewed along side one another, were superior to the single layer burns I'd done, so I've switched to using only dual layer discs from now on. And since I've had zero problems with Verbatim, despite reading about others encountering problems when trying to burn dual layer discs, I'm sticking with this brand.

Update Aug 2016 Verbatim is no longer manufacturing these disks in Singapore or India. Their new facility in the UAE is however now producing good quality disks. As a result I am upgrading the rating here to 5 stars from the former one star. Original review: Verbatim DL used to be by far the best DL media available. Reliable, stable in storage, and consistent high quality made by Mitsubishi in their Singapore plant, one of the highest quality DVD production plants in the world. Not any more. Verbatim has outsourced a large part of their DL production to a plant in India, and now when you buy this media you have a high chance of getting made in India - this product is poor, often with obvious physical defects in the media like bubbles, holes and foil delaminates. It is possible to still find made in Singapore cakeboxes on store shelves, but if you can't actually read the disk label before buying you are rolling the dice when you buy. It is a real shame Verbatim does not offer the Singapore product as a diferent grade. It would be worth a few extra bucks to get a cakebox that had a 95% success rate vs. the 50% rate the made in India product gives. Verbatim has really gotten a black eye in my book with this stunt. Update: (Dec 17 2014) Well Verbatim is up to it's old tricks, now they are shipping stuff from the United Arab Emirates. The word is out that the UAE is also inferior quality that is hit or miss when it comes to burning success. Insist on Made In Singapore. Yes it's more money than the junk but junk is actually worth less than zero.

This was my first experience using double layer media for burning, so while I have no reference points to go by, I must say I've not had a bad disc so far. I promise to update this review if things begin to change. I have two versions of Nero (6 and 8) on two very different computers, and I've noticed that they both automatically lower the burn rate to 4X (though I can pump it up to 6X on Nero 6) and wonder if speed accounts for the fact that "lesser" brands fail more often. I even have one of the hated Sony burners in my Core Duo 2 laptop with Nero 8, and it works, despite being HUGELY slower than with a Lite-On drive installed in my ancient AMD64 desktop. My only gripe with this product is, oddly, what drew me to it in the first place: the price. At $40.48 for a 30 pack you're looking at $1.35 per disc. I find it hard to believe that in this day and age, when the product cycle for optical discs of this sort is quite mature, that it costs this much to produce them. Can it really be more than double the cost of two single layer discs which can be had for 20 to 30 cents each at fairly reliable quality? Perhaps...I've never made them myself. I will conclude in Verbatim's defense that this is the lowest price point short of the widely maligned Memorex discs. That's why I chose them, and all in all I'm quite happy. P.S.--It might be interesting to hear from those who have used both these and the cheaper Memorex discs to see if patterns in why things head south do so. I'll let you know if I decide to bite the bullet and try the competition at some point.

Many of us are converting VHS tapes to digital formats that will be, eventually, transferred to computers, smart phones, and other digital devices. An analog (VHS) to digital (DVD) conversion can be either an intermediate or final step in the digitation process. For some of us, just preserving our home movie memories to optical disks is a welcome alternative to keeping bulky and obsolete VHS analog systems using tapes that are both magnetically and physically deteriorating. One method to accomplish this task is to use a VHS-to-DVD transfer/conversion system. These decks, e.g. SONY, will facilitate a relatively easy conversion, but you need a good quality DVD recordable disk to complete the process. These disks are dual-layered (DL) which means that both the storage capacity and recording time is doubled for the disk. This is good news for those of us who have recorded tapes exceeding two hours using the extended play (EP) feature of VHS cameras. And since most DVD conversion decks will allow the option of a DVD recording at a “higher” quality level than Standard Play (SP), this feature will improved the appearance of the VHS transfer to disk recording. For the sake of preserving valuable recordings, I regularly select the High Quality (HQ) recording option of the DVD deck, and this option has always improved the quality of the transferred movies. But there is a tradeoff, and this is where DL disks become an important choice. Using the HQ recording option means that the maximum recording time for a disk will be reduced, but the DL disks have extended already the recording time beyond the total time of standard, non-DL, DVD disks. For me, this is a welcome win-win situation. Note: Only newer DVD decks are able to use DL disks; this fact can be verified by consulting the User's Manual of your device. For older decks, the standard Verbatim DVD recordable disks would be used instead. I have used Verbatim recordable media for many years, and for the most part these disks have worked remarkably well without incident. A few times I did discover a visible glitch on a disk when the deck failed to finalize the disk. You can usually spot these glitches as a small discolored spot on the disk‘s recordable-side surface (a magnifying glass is needed). Fortunately, these problems have been rare. Kudos to Verbatim. As a final step in the conversion process, I use a computer and DVD-reader to transfer these movies from DVD disks to .mp4 or .mov files. If you take this final step, then you will have accomplished the task of digitizing and preserving your movies—forever. I've done this with hundreds of hours of movies for myself and friends desiring to keepsake memories for ourselves and our future generations.

Works well

Love the discs...just not the price for the discs!

If you are making Xbox 360 backups buy these!!!! Life Series does not work!!!