What do I try next? Taiyo Yuden? Do they even make Dual Layer
media? Maybe they're not stupid enough to?

Definitely Taiyo Yuden. If you're making a lot of discs (so the extra 10p or
so per disc for TY dye is prohibitive) then use Ritek dye based discs.

Note I bought a batch of Ridisc DVD-R assuming it would be Ritek dye - it
wasn't. It was CMC Magentics dye, which is pants.

Buy from somewhere like SVP, where the ADVDINFO readout is displayed
alongside the rest of the info about the discs. Avoid "lucky dip" packs,
even the ones from SVP, unless it's for short-term projects.


I would be interested to know of any other people in this newsgroup
who has had sucess burning video to dual layer DVD and has had no
problems playing that back in a variety of drives and players.

I gave up on DL fairly early, and haven't really had need to go back to
check compatibility recently. However, we got two new DVD players over the
Christmas period, so I may rip something tough to them (like "The Matrix")
and see how they get on...


Maybe when Blu Ray burners come down in price I'll finally have a
format I can burn my project onto in full quality without any
problems?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technolog..._implodes.html