Recommended DVD-R media for DVD Studio Pro

I've just upgraded my Mac to a dual processor 2.3 GHx G5, and I've been having trouble burning DVD projects to DVD-R media from DVD Studio 3. The drive will either spit the disk out or it will go through the burn process, and the "burn successful" will pop on the screen in DVD Studio, but the DVD will be blank. It doesn't seem to be consistently doing this, so I think it may be the media I'm using, but I can't find a list of recommeded DVD-R brands.
My SuperDrive is a Sony DVD RW DW-Q28A:

Not totally. RW discs are great for proofing and personal use. It's always a good idea to have a player that can play ±RW discs as it saves you having to use ±R media...
But yeah, you might have wasted the money, they aren't that much these days though... there are plenty of worse ahhhhh situations in dvd authoring,
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