very poorly packaged
***i ordered these dvd-rws on 6-15-11 and they arrived on 6-22-11. in a cardboard box with no padding whatsoever. as a result, the plastic container in which the rws are packaged was cracked at the bottom and a piece came off.i have used one of these dvds for recording in a hdd-dvdr player-recorder and the off-air copy is fine. the 'finalized' recorded video plays in a mac under the mac dvd player, in a pc under windows media player and in a toshiba cd-dvd player. it will not play in my pc under vlc 0.8.6d.i can not comment on performance of the unused dvds nor whether or not the maxell brand product will allow proper erasure and recording in a mac or pc-platform computer.i certainly do not recommend that you purchase anything fragile from amazon (this item is shown as coming from a different vendor but fulfilled (packaged) by amazon.)poor packaging by amazon has been, for me, a constant and long-standing issue, with proper packaging the exception rather than a given.***