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Update Aug 2016 Verbatim is no longer manufacturing these disks in Singapore or India. Their new facility in the UAE is however now producing good quality disks. As a result I am upgrading the rating here to 5 stars from the former one star. Original review: Verbatim DL used to be by far the best DL media available. Reliable, stable in storage, and consistent high quality made by Mitsubishi in their Singapore plant, one of the highest quality DVD production plants in the world. Not any more. Verbatim has outsourced a large part of their DL production to a plant in India, and now when you buy this media you have a high chance of getting made in India - this product is poor, often with obvious physical defects in the media like bubbles, holes and foil delaminates. It is possible to still find made in Singapore cakeboxes on store shelves, but if you can't actually read the disk label before buying you are rolling the dice when you buy. It is a real shame Verbatim does not offer the Singapore product as a diferent grade. It would be worth a few extra bucks to get a cakebox that had a 95% success rate vs. the 50% rate the made in India product gives. Verbatim has really gotten a black eye in my book with this stunt. Update: (Dec 17 2014) Well Verbatim is up to it's old tricks, now they are shipping stuff from the United Arab Emirates. The word is out that the UAE is also inferior quality that is hit or miss when it comes to burning success. Insist on Made In Singapore. Yes it's more money than the junk but junk is actually worth less than zero.