DVD and internal Sony Drive problems

Hi,
I noticed that there were a few people having problems with writing DVD's so here's my problem to add to the list.
SONY DVD RW DW-U21A:
Firmware Revision: AADB
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No
I always use DVD-R.
This is the drive shipped with my mac and until a few weeks ago it worked fine. I then bought a batch of TDK DVDs (2x-16x speed) and none would write. Some of my older Sony DVDs wrote the same files absolutely fine. I thought it was a bad batch of TDK's and got my money back.
Now I've just bought some Imation discs (up to 16x compatible) and some BenQ (8x)- who make for a lot of large brand names. The Imations fail in every write and the BenQ's are fine.
As far as I know my drive is 8x compatible, so could this 16x compatibility be part of the problem even though the discs are meant to be able to be written at 8x, or is a firmware upgrade the way to go?
One more thing, the DVD shop asked me if I needed DVD's version 1 or 1.1. How would I find this out?
Any pointers in this direction would be most helpful if you reckon it is the 8x/16x thing as the lesser speeds are getting more difficult to come by.
dual 2gb G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
dual 2gb G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Agreed -- we shouldn't be forced into buying new drives. I'm as frustrated as you are. Apple should work with Sony to get the firmware updates we need -- there should be no reason that the new 16x media can't be burned at 8x in our year-old G5 systems.
I tried again tonight with new 16x Fuji media in Studio Pro, and got the same error. However, some lower-end, big-box-computer-store 8x media burns just fine. As I type, I'm burning to some old Apple DVD 1x media I had lying around; it too is working just fine. Proves to me that it is only the newer 16x-capable media that fails in this drive (I think 5 different media vendors is enough to demonstrate this).
Did you also notice that it is (nearly) impossible to find brand-name 8x media in the stores today? I'd be happy if I could find that without mailorder. FYI -- a mailorder location where I have been successful is www.supermediastore.com -- I might have to order from them again.
I see that someone else has posted and mentioned macsales.com -- that is where I got the $43 price for the Pioneer burner.
I have no association with macsales.com or supermediastore.com -- just a satisfied customer in the past.
Herb

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