My advice for those that burn a number of disks --> Buy Good or Great 8X media - the cost savings from going to 16X to 8X more that offsets buying the great media.
Then buy another DVD burner --> at $50 you will offset the media cost differential. Then either copy to both burners at once - or run different copy jobs on both burners at the same time. I do that 95% of the time and have yet to burn a coaster as a result. Or I can rip on one and copy on the other. All I use is TY or Verb. - 50/50 8X and 16X but in so doing I have never unhappy with an 8X burn speed as I have been using the dual DVD option for over a year. Since I currently have another DVD burner laying around, I just might toss that in the case too - would like to see how it burns off the SATA side. Again - at $50 I don't know that it's a big deal.