Wont burn. Error..."No disc is in the drive. Insert a recordable DVD disc."

Get error message "No disc is in the drive. Insert a recordable DVD disc."
After multiple attempts with "Staples Brand" DVD-R (up to 16x Speed) and DVD-RW (up to 4x Speed) Recordable & Rewritable Disc. I tried every disc in the package (12). None of them will burn? The DVD player still functions. So I don't think it's a hardware problem. Any body got any ideas?

I have burned to "Staples" media in the past (about a year ago).
Staples, and many other 'big box' stores, buy their own brand media from low bidders and so it can come from many sources.
If it was dust, wouldn't that also effect the read ability?
Not necessarily.
I was leaning towards the "Cheap Media" as the main problem
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