Satellite L850-13Q cannot write DVDs

Hello!
I recently tried to write several DVDs without success. It is a problem that occurred several days ago, out of the blue, since a long time has passed since I last wrote a DVD. I tried several DVD brands, so the DVDs are not the problem. I also used several DVD writing programs (Ashampoo, Nero, ImgBurn), none of them worked. I do not receive any errors during the writing process, in fact, everything runs as it's supposed to. What is more, the disc surface is visibly written.
But when I insert the DVD, Windows sees it as a blank DVD. I am using Windows 8 (the writing used to work just fine before, also under Windows 8) and I am most certain that no harmful change to the operating system has occurred, since I also performed a clean install of Windows, the result of the writing being the same.
Satellite L850-13Q DVD Drive (TSSTcorp CDDVDW SN-208AB)
Help?

Have you checked burned DVDs on some other PCs? Are all of them recognized as blank discs?
What is with CDs? Have you noticed the same problem with burning data on empty CDs?
It is really strange issue and it is not easy to say what the problem can be. If I understand you right the same problem persists with clean OS installation (factory settings), right?

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