What Brand of DL DVD's?

Last Wednesday I bought a new MacBook Pro (replacing my 2.2Ghz Santa Rosa). On my Santa Rosa, I always used Memorex Dls because they worked. Now, with my new Penryn MBP, the Memorex seem to fail every time in iDVD. It is also really annoying that they will burn for like an hour and in just the last few minutes fail.. so I waisted a bunch of time. My new DVD burner model is : HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N
I believe the model above is an Lg (correct?). My old one had the same beginning (HL-DT-ST) so i think both of mine had LG drive, just the new one is well, a newer model. Anyways, has anybody found a brand that works with this model. Searching through the forums, I see that lots of people had dirty lenses and clean them but my computer is less than a week old so that shouldn't be the case. Thanks!

Memorex are just plain unreliable. The choice is really slim in the DL world, but for the times I need a double capacity disk that sells for 10 times the cost of a single, I use Verbatim +DL and they work consistently. Fuji work usually, Memorex media of any kind is loserville, Target being the vendor a major clue.
Also usually good to make an image first then burn from the image while nothing else is going on as the whole process is unduly fragile. Best bet is to not require DL disks, frankly.

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