Anyone recommend reliable DVD-R media for big run?

Hi All;
I have a couple LARGE jobs coming up in the next few months , 100 disc copies per, and wondering what you all have had good luck with as far as dvd player compatability? (ie returns due to ' skips in my dvd player etc ...') I encode at around 4-5mbs with AC-3 audio... the program is roughly 95 mins on 1 disc.
I have been using Maxell DVD-R's for last few small runs and have had good luck... I have a bunch of Ritek's coming from Ebay to test...
thanks in advance...

What a GREAT resource for information! Thanks for the post...
We've been in the DVD business for almost 10 years now and in the early days, the only discs we used were Pioneer. Always great luck back then, but then again, discs were $100.00 each when we first started! Hey, the burner was $10K!
Now, we stick with Maxell media. Also great luck. We've used Kodak with only a few bad spindles and I just purchased TDK for the first time. Great price at our local Costco.
Good luck with your project. Buy high quality and pay more, but suffer no headaches in the end.

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