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I'm having problems with home movies burned to good quality media (TDK -R). They appear to degrade and become unplayable within months. The discs are stored correctly and not misused or dirty - this is happening to numerous discs being used on numerous players (inc. the iMac they were originally burned on).
Having read through previous discussions, I'm trying to ensure I burn at the slowest speed possible to see if that helps, however I can't find anyway to specify a burn speed in iDVD. Preferences are set to "best quality".
Thanks if you can help (I have looked through these forums and "Help" before posting
iMac G4 800 17 / 768 MB SD RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Unless you are using a different burner that what came with your 17" iMac G4, I am not sure you need to worry about burn speed. It is already a slower burner. That said, you could create a disc image from with iDVD and then use the disk utility to burn the image to a DVD. Doing this will give you a dialog box allowing you to select a burn speed if a variable burn speed is supported.
I suspect the discs themselves. First, I hope you haven't attached a paper sticky label to these? That would be the sure fire problem. Next, it could be a bad batch or maybe your burner just doesn't like TDK? It happens. Verbatims are usually very Mac friendly.
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