Verbatim 97016 DVD-R Optical Disc, White, 0.1

I have used a about 200 of these DVD's with only about a 2% failure rate. Previously I had ordered Sony printable DVD's because of their good ratings by reviewers and because of my own good experience with Sony products. With the Sony DVD's I had about a 25% failure rate. I do print labels on my DVD's, using an Epson Artisan 835 and Artisan 50 printers (both excellent machines, the 835 a little more convenient when printing several of the same DVD or CD) and I get excellent results. The Verbatim 97016 printable DVD's are excellent in all respects. Interestingly, the old 5.25 inch floppy disks sold under the Verbatim label in the late 70's and early 80's were also superior products. Regarding the high failure rate reported by one reviewer of non-spooled blank DVD's, my experience indicates that his problems may stem from the VERY poor packing CONSISTENTLY done by the people sending them out. I use quite a few CD's and DVD's of various types, and the padding of packages is always unbelievably bad. When ordering several types of disks in a single order I have had more than 1/3 of the disks rendered unusable. I suggest ordering one package per order. Since they have only the sides of the box to bang against they suffer less damage though the padding they used does little to impede the included package from bouncing around in the package. I suspect that the two DVD's that failed in the last package did so as the result of shipping damage despite it was in an order by itself. Since I wrote the above, I have started using these same DVD's that come on spindles, packed 50 to a spindle. I have used many hundreds of them and have had only one instance of damage to a shipment. They are still badly packaged, but the spindle packing protects them. Other than that one shipment, I have never received a defective DVD. I highly recommend the spindled versions. 7/20/14 Update. Because the 100 disk pack is less expensive, and since I am am an Amazon prime member, I have again started ordering the that size, one at a time. I found that if the disks were sent by themselves, they would usually arrive undamaged -- when two or more of them are together, they bang against each other consistently causing damage to those disks at the top and bottom of the pack. Much to my surprise, MY LAST ORDER ARRIVED WELL PACKED: The disk pack was wrapped all around in bubble wrap and the space in the box was totally filled with Blister wrap. I am so encouraged that on my next order, I am going to order two or three at a time.

I have been purchasing this brand for many years. I own a company called Hernandez Video Services that converts videotapes to DVD and these are the blanks that I use. I never had a playability issue complaint from a customer. Very reliable. I also convert audio, film, photos, and slides.

I am a video professional for 30 years and using burned DVD-R discs since they first came to the home and business industry… back when they were $15 a blank DVD-R disc! My staff and I have always trusted the Verbatim name. Since our customers pay for our services we need to provide them with a high quality media to last for years. (The Jury is still out… get back to us in theWe use these hub printable ink-jet AND thermal DVD-R type discs. These White Inkjet Hub Printable Virtually no failure with a high rate of successful burns. As we have tried the less expensive brands and even some major manufacture brands with far higher fail rate. And the price is fair. Even though physical media is fading popularity, we still need to provide DVD video discs. Plenty fast for our macs and towers. Works great!

I burned about 50 of them making DVDs and only had 1 that wouldn't write, so I am happy with them so far. Printing on them was fine. The surface was a bright enough white to not distort the true color (as I have had happen with other discs in the past).

ROCK SOLID.

I wish these came in the cakebox because the shrink wrapped discs always end up with 1-2 defects. The print quality isn't as clear or absorbing as some off brands, but it does exclude the annoying hub label other verbatim printables have. Overall a good disc

Came on time! Good stuff, I use it all the time for my video biz!!

I have purchased and used 100s of these Verbatim DVDs in the last couple of years. I am very happy with the results. I use these to create and burn master versions of my videos using an IMac. Then I make identical copies for my customers using my 3 tray cd/dvd duplicator. On about 2 out of 100 disks the duplicator has reported a bad or failed dvd disk burn. For me this is minimal waste and I'll toss out those few. The most important and final result is this...I have not received any complaints (or returns) from a customer that their dvd failed in any way. I feel this is a terrific product and will continue to purchase more. I want to also mention that these like many brands of dvds are rated up to 16X. I however, set the read / write speed at 2X or 4X. For important professional work I never choose a faster speed.