I'm a photographer and I archive thousands of photos to DVD every year. I'm on DVD 251 right now. Of the first 25 DVDs out of this package I've already had 11 FAIL to write!!! I just got off the phone with Verbatim, and while they are offering to replace any failed DVDs, that doesn't help me recover the time wasted waiting for a DVD to write, only to fail, and have to repeat the process. Now I have doubts about the quality of the DVDs that did write; are they going to be reliable? I plan to re-achive all those images on a different brand DVD just to be safe. I've used Memorex and Fuji and maybe had 2 or 3 fail to write out of 100. Maybe this was a bad batch?? I don't know, but I'm NEVER BUYING THIS BRAND AGAIN!!!