This is the question I asked myself prior to acquiring the knowledge; at first I always thought that all disk media quality was the same and that the only difference between the more expensive ones and the cheaper ones were brand name. I soon found this to be untrue after an hour or two of googling, basically the cheaper DL media will work on your xbox360 however the quality of dye used on these disks is far lower than on more expensive disks, the consequence of putting a DL disk in your 360 is that it puts more strain on your DVD drive laser resulting in your DVD drive packing in far earlier than it should.
Top 3 are as follows;
*Verbatim (Must have the right dye)
*Datasafe
*Ridisc
For xbox360’s the problem of which DL media brand to use should not be of importance at the end of November, once Microsoft release the new dash board update which enables you to run you games from your hard drive so long as you have the game in the drive, which will cut down the demand on your DVD laser. One last thing to note when making a backup is to only burn at 2x, you will find you get the best results, and end up will less coasters, also there are some dvd burners that work better than others, Pioneers have the best success rate.
