IMac DVD Burning Freeze - How to exit when stuck in ¨finishing burning...

I just bought this brand new iMac (dec. 18) and EVERYTIME I try to burn data on a DVD (small file of less than 30Mb!) with Finder, the writting action takes less than 30 sec, but then the process is permanently stuck in the last ¨finishing burning...¨ step. Everytime, I need to manually reset (holding the power key for 6 sec!) to end this endless process loop. The funny thing is that when the iMac reboot, the DVD is prefectly OK and all data has been burn OK.
I have the same kind of problem in iDVD. I tried to burn a very small (6 pictures only) DVD. The burning process went as planned, but the last step just never ended. After 30 min. I need to abort the process. As with ¨burning with finder¨, the DVD was however 100% correctly burnt.
So, it means that I can burn DVD, but I need to force a reset of the iMAC or succeed to abort the last step of burning for every DVD I burn. Strange and annoying!
Any body saw this problem? Could it be a Media type problem (cheap DVD brand)?

Try restarting while holding the mouse down

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