Ejecting Blank DVD Media

Hello all,
I have an Intel iMac that has been working great for about a year burning DVDs from iDVD and Disk Utility. I use Verbatim 16x media and always have. Earlier this week while working on a slideshow/video for our swim team; iDVD errored trying to write a disk. No message just stopped and ejected disk. Now, if I insert blank DVD media, it will not mount and ejects after a few seconds. I read something about alignment issues. I've also read that this issue could be related to a firmware/software update.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Leo

did you solve your problem ?
I've got a similar thing ... not exact ..... when I have external media they do not eject except if I use disk utility .... boring since just trashing or clicking the small arrow did it for years and now .... NOT ....
don't know if it's connected, but I've been searching for a why on this for months .... no info coming back to me yet ..... obviously worried if it spells disaster at some point when I am blocked completely

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