Just realized I can burn a DVD while...

[pcgeek11]

The original Pioneer home CD copiers were the worst, a 66% failure rate but they heated the discs up to 1000 degrees or so. Your PC burner should not have been anywhere near that failure rate unless you created buffer underrun.

Yes it was in the early 1990's. A Buffer Underrun was normally the problem or fault, but that was not normally created by the user...

Buffer underrun or buffer underflow is a state occurring when a buffer used to communicate between two devices or processes is fed with data at a lower speed than the data is being read from it.