Yes I was sent an article that basically said the same thing about these issues. In the article, the author highly recommended these:
http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden...us-r-media.html
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From the same web site you refer to, Andrew, is the following comment on Blu-ray disks:-
BD-R (write-once type) and BD-RE (rewritable type) Blu-ray Discs.
There are 4 new products of Blu-Ray Disc: BD-R25 (single-side, single-layer, 25GB), BD-R50 (single-side, dual-layer, 50GB), BD-RE: BD-RE25 (single-side, single-layer, 25GB) and BD-RE50 (single-side, dual-layer, 50GB).
The Blu-Ray BD-R write-once type, makes use of an inorganic material in the recording layer, entirely different from the organic dye used in previous types of write-once type discs. Because the recording layer is not affected by light, it realizes a disc with outstanding archivability. Furthermore, the Blu-Ray BD-RE rewritable type utilizes a high-sensitivity phase-change material that realizes stabilized characteristics, in the form of a low error rate, even after 10,000 overwrites.
It's often difficult to distinguish between optimism, advertising hype and the facts. It has now been widely published that these optical storage systems are not as permanent as they were intially advertised as being, but as with many things in life, there's often an over-reaction. I've had the experience myself, upon finding a disc that used to play, then later failed to play on one particular system, of automatically assuming that the disc was physically deteriorating and that this was the cause of it's apparent non-playability.
Fortunately, I don't have a single disc, CD or DVD, out of the thousands I've recorded, that I know for certain was initially playable (recorded successfully), and that is now unplayable on all my computer systems.
If I ever come across a situation, in the years ahead, where some older images I've transferred to Blu-ray have become unreadable, and the same images previously recorded on a DVD disc have also become unreadable, and again those same images initially recorded on CD have become unreadable, I'll let you know .
