if it's anything like CD-r's, i know a little bit of folk wisdom. besides "absolute" recommendations like Taiyo Yuden, there are also some relative considerations. burners have different intensities, and cd-r's different layer thicknesses and compositions. so if you get a cd-r brand that is happy with the kind of burn your burner is doing, then you have a good match.
sometimes people will have a cd-burner. they get a brand of cd-r's that are a poor match for their burner, and then they say "these cd-roms SUCK!". and the brands they are talking about are completely decent ones. in situations like that it was probably an unfortunate bad match.
if you trolled around the internet long enough, you would find every brand of Cd-r has been given the distinction of "Sucks!" by someone somewhere. we'd never get any work done if we took all these isolated trash-talks as meaning we can never use that brand of cd-r.
probably similar with dvd-r's if i had to guess
