DVD player vs. the Media

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I use a few tools to backup, but mostly latley ANYDVD and Clondvd2. Got a Pioneer A05 drive. I also backup my kids xbox games, so I have been standardizing on Ritek media with the G04 dye. That works best for Xbox.

My issue is that not all of my house DVD players seem to like my burns. They play fine for a while but then stop in the middle.

The weird thing is that is seems that the cheaper the dvd reader the better it plays my backups. For example I got this $1000+ sony 6mths ago multi-disk home theader POS, and it will not play burns well at all. However, the very same movie will play great in my $35 Apex DVD player.

Yes the higher the compression rate the worse my chances are. Non compressed movies all play fine for me.

So my question is what do you guys think is the better DVD players out there for playing backup movies?

Also should I switch from Ritek media for Sony players?

thanks