DVD-R question

[Jeremy Mixer <mixer@xxxxxxxx>]

I am not teh biggest expert on DVD-R media, and what the best brands are 
and what aren't. I have been trying to make it a practice to back up DVD's 
that I play a lot so I can preserve teh originals.....while it sometimes 
proves difficult to get through the copy protection, I am normally able to 
successfully do this. (For my own personal use)

However, I noticed on osome of these DVD's that I backed up a year or so 
ago...the color has faded greatly. Watching Ali-G (one of the other 
characters that comes from the great mind of Sasha Baron Bohen, the same 
man who brought us Borat) is impossible sometimes on these technically 
pirated DVD's because on one sketch, he uses some hand written charts and 
teh color has faded so much you cannot see what is on there and it takes 
away the humor.

However, my backup of the Led Zep DVD on the same DVD-R has seemed to stay 
preserved, both were done around the same time. The DVD-R's I am using are 
Memorex....which I am starting to think was not the right choice.

Is this fading some sort of copy protection, is it due to the burner on my 
computer, or is it due to inferior DVD-R's? If it is because of the 
DVD-R's, is Maxel the way to go?

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