Movie & Sound skipping, is it normal?

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I've been checking some local store for CD-R. Most of them sell Princo's disks and other nameless brands. Some sell Sony's, and Fuji. Verbatim is very rare and cost twice as much. Since 'ihaveanosebleed' was very specific about the type of verbatim disk (PREMIUM dark blue), I asked the sellers about it, and noone seem to know what I was talking about.

So, I got some more questions.

1. Is Princo's, Sony's or Fuji's disks any good?
2. It seems most Princo I found has write speed of 2x-24x. Does that mean I'm not supposed to write at 1x or doesn't matter?
3. Most experienced back-uper seem to suggest CDRWin or CloneCD, does it mean NERO isn't good?

Any reply is appreciate, and thanks everyone for reading my post.