Burning 16x DVDs (im)possible ?

Hello community,
I owe a G3 800 (PowerMac4,5) with a standard internal DVD burner. I burned DVDs (-R) for years. I recently bought a case of 16x DVD -R (Philips), and I am having problems at the beginning of session, with a double error message prompting that I could not print the DVD (the first time, the error message was even more precise, with something related to being unable to calibrate the laser etc...). I tried with another brand 16X DVD-R (Imation), and the same happens now. I do not have any left of my old 8X DVDs (the last one worked well a few days ago). I cannot find more on the market (Valencia, Spain) which apparently has switched to the 16X standard. On one box of these, I picked a warning message on the possibility for having to upgrade the firmwares of burner (intended to PC owners probably). CD Burning is unaffected. The problem happens with Toast, Disk-Utility as well as finder burning, although with different messages (I grabbed the Toast message images if needed).
OK, now my question: could it be that this only change from 8x to 16x is causing the trouble ? If yes, is there a solution (other than hunting for old stocks of 8x... ?).
Many thanks
Yvan
In case it helps, the tech data from my internal DVD (sorry I am French ! although living in Spain now...):
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104 :
Révision du programme interne : A227
Interconnexion : ATAPI
Gestion de la gravure : Oui (livraison/gestion par Apple)
Cache : 2000 Ko
Lecture de DVD : Oui
CD gravables : -R, -RW
DVD gravables : -R, -RW
Protection contre la
sous-alimentation de la
mémoire tampon durant la
gravure de CD : Oui
Protection contre la
sous-alimentation de la
mémoire tampon durant la
gravure de DVD : Oui
Stratégies d’écriture : CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Données : Non

There are several different Manufactures of 16X DVD-R Media.
Not all will operate in the slower DVD burners, You already found that out.
You must buy the absolute best Media. Next you must read the packaging of the media you buy. You need to purchase 16X media that tells you on the packaging that it will burn at 1X,2X,4X,8X,and 16X.
Not all of them will.
I use Maxell 16X DVD-R in the individual Jewel Cases.
Many of these other manufactures will not burn at all the slower speeds and they also use other companies to manufacture there products.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
Another suggestion, let the Software choose the burning speed.
Do not manually choose the burning speed.
Don

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