Bob, Thanks and a belated welcome to the forum with your first post.
I actually slowed it down to 8x rather than using the full 16x; it just means waiting a little longer.
Terry.
Thanks for the belated welcome, Terry. But I've been here (and on the group) for a while - and have often posted (in my mind) - being a lurker of sorts <grin>.
But Fred may have another answer just as well with:
When we needed blanks (DVDs), we tried the least expensive, and then one step up, and then another step up. Not a big price difference, more like 10 dollars a hundred from top to bottom of the scale.
We did find a difference though.
The cheaper ones had more 'duds' per hundred than the better ones, and the next up, better yet, no duds per hundred.
By more duds per hundred, I would judge 12 out the hundred would fail.
We ended up using the best of the three since the wasted time re-doing the project because of the dud was certainly worth the extra 10 cents.
Since I don't burn 'that many DVD's' I tend to purchase those from the better known brands - usually more expensive that the bottom basement names. So I guess a combo of both might be in order?
Therefore, I don't experience very many (if any) bad dvd's. Lucky I guess.