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Yes. As long as the disc is recognized, the drive will record it. The burn quality depends on the quality of the medium, the quality of the drive, the compatibility of the drive firmware with the medium, the speed of the recording, the compatibility of the software, the integrity of the files, the computer settings, and the freedom from drawing heavily on buffer memory in the drive. Incompatible discs get blamed for poor quality; compatible discs, even average ones, get praised for excellent quality. Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim are media with the greatest compatibility for several reasons, some of them political; and they happen to be excellent quality also. There are several other manufacturers who make very good quality discs but whose discs, for several reasons, including political ones, are less compatible; and they are slammed for "poor quality" when quality is often not the issue at all.
Fuji media most often use an oxonol dye developed by Fuji. This is a good dye, but it requires more laser power than azo-cyanine or cyanine dyes used by other manufacturers. At 16X, the power requirements exceed the power capabilities of several laser diode suppliers; so the oxonol dye is not common for high-speed 16X DVD discs. It sounds as though your drive's firmware does not accept the MID code in the Imation discs, but at 8X the diode Lite-On uses is OK; and other Lite-On drives work well with oxonol dye-based discs for 8X speeds. Hold on to your Imation discs until Lite-On issues a firmware update. The discs will work at 8X if Lite-On includes this MID code in the next update. TY and Verbatim discs are excellent discs with high compatibility, but don't be bullied into believing that they are the only discs worth using.
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