Well, your ahead of me!
Mine's still in the box!!
OK, here's what I have read so far:
Traditionally, DVD-R
has been the most reliable, esp. when played in older "component" DVD players.
Also our new drive is still having "teething" problems - stay tuned for BIOS upgrades.
However, both the Sony DRU500A and the NEC drive scheduled to appear sometime in December (in other "blue-smoke-and-mirrors" "vaporware" words -
REAL-SOON-NOW)
use a different method of writing.
This could mean that what was true for all drives in the past
will not be true for these new drives.
So we get to find out the hard way. (Ain't it
great being on the bloddy edge?)
Also of great intrest, except for Verbatum's older blanks, it seems that just about everything works - but only at 1X with certainty.
And a closely connected situation - the Verbatum disk recall and the obvious way these new Multi-Format DVD drives are going to sweep the market place - coupled with a perceived need for "more compatable and highter speed media" has all the high volume Blank Media Dealers (the internet ones at least) making poo-poo in their shorts.
This means
BLOW-OUT PRICES ON OLD MEDIA!
So if we can be content with 1x recording (in any format), we can make out like bandits!
Yes, some of the high-speed media works great, but it costs a lot more, too.
Hope this helps some.
I'm sure there will be LOTS of actual experience soon, too!