Wes,
I agree that Nero is probably a good program and that is why I bought the full blown program but I just use it on my computer and I don' 't do movies or such. And it didn't seem to ruin the disks, it was just that every once in a while when I got ready to add more files to a disk it would not open it at all. If I messed around long enough it would eventually open it and add the files. The disks were good and for what i do I don't need the full program anyway so decided to try this scaled down version that came on the computer. Of course it has a different format, but once I got everything transferred over, I haven't had but one failure to read in 6 months and I looked at the disk and it was dusty. I just took a can of air and blew it off and it has worked great every since. I am to dumb to get into the complicated world of TV, satellite, DVD, Blue Ray and all of that.
Ron