Philips DR8I8B25F - DVD+R DL x 25-8.5 GB

I bought a 25-pack of these in February 2019 and have used them during 2020. They seemed to write OK during the early part of the year (I always use "write verification", by the way), but recently, they have constantly failed, half a dozen or so at the moment. I like to back-up stuff on optical discs on at least two different makes of disc, and just as well!Failure on these was occurring, as for another reviewer, at about 80% in, but then others were failing as early as 50% in. Another burner confirmed it was the Philips DL DVD+Rs at fault.The second make of disc I've been using is Verbatim, and these have been perfect every time - so, better to make two Verbatim copies than only one, plus a Philips one.Today, I was checking through some of the Philips back-up discs I had written during the earlier part of this year (2020), and although OK at the time of them having been written, alas, I've found one that cannot now be read, so these discs are totally unreliable and cannot be trusted.It's too late to return them, and I'm not willing to risk using these discs any more, so unfortunately, I'm going to have to ding out the remaining ones!My advice to you all: DO NOT USE. Sorry, sellers, no offence, but this is how it is. You are taking a big risk selling these discs. It's a real shame, because Philips has always had such a good reputation, for decades and decades. My very first CDRs in the 1990s were Philips gold ones, and they were superb. Maybe there are just bad batches of these dual layer DVD+Rs, but I'm not going to be the one to spend days and days testing them.TTFN, and stay safe, everyone.

These are supposed to be good quality PHILLIPS DVD+R DL but I doubt it now! They discs are supposedly double layer and do not carry the usual Phillips logo on the disc centre but but just blank printable white. I bought 2x25 stack. of the first stack I could not write on 14 of them with ANY writer (my 2 PCs or a good Panasonic DVD player/writer). But 11 worked and now I have started the second set!!! I have used NINE of these and NONE (NOT ONE!) will write in either single or dual layer!!!!I have used regular Phillips ones before and they were fine but these are definitely faulty. Just to check and correlate I bought 25 Verbatim. Lot more expensive and now I know why! Not single fault with any of them. The Verbatim write perfectly with the same PCs and player!!Dr A Newey

I've had Philips printable DL DVD's in the past many times, from a different source, with no problems at all. These ones however are really bad, have had almost a full 25 tub of coasters, with 3 today, with 3 different writing programs. These look different to the ones I've had in the past, with the words "DVD+R DL 8x" missing from the printing side of the disc, also printing surface is very poor and transparent. Are these cheap pirate copies ?

Arrived promptly as as described.So far I have had no discs fail to be written to, which is unusual for this type of disc and far better than the previous manufacturer that I tried recently

Every single one in the pack apart from one was corrupt and my blu-ray/dvd+r dl just spat them out, tried several burning studios on my msi high end machine and it hated them. No issues with any other DVDs or bluray i burn. I think its the cheap rough white coating that eats my Bic markers for fun. Yep im lazy lazy and don't want to go through rigmarole of designing-printing-sticking a label to each dvd.