Blank 16x DVDs will not burn in internal DVD burner

Hi
Some blank 16x DVDs will not burn in the internal DVD burner on my iBook G4.
My iBook tries to load the DVD-Rs but it spits the DVD out after 2 tries.
Any reason why
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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