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Anyone notice imprinting on BD-Rs from contact with textured material?

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datora:
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Anyone willing to recommend BluRay media they have high confidence in?  Personal anecdotes for good ones & bad ones appreciated as much as significant and trustworthy reviews.

I just got a BluRay burner to perform archival back-ups, especially of my anime but also other very critical data (photography & music archive, too).

I'm just now getting my feet wet in the BluRay media game and would greatly appreciate pointers of what to look at and what to avoid.

For the most part, I intend to focus on the most stable single-layer/25 GB media for the "near" future, but would certainly consider dual-layer 50 GB media if it has exceptional reliability for archival use.

A good, simple & free burning program for data w/ verification also, please, which has a good track record specifically for BluRay.  If it can be used for DVD & CD too, all the better.

Thanks!  8).

nstgc:
I've been using Memorex and Optical Quantum and so far I haven't had any real problems. I had one coaster in about 45 with the OQ and 0 coasters in 25 with the Memorex. Both are HTL discs, meaning that the media starts out more reflective than after its burned (DVD+/-R are LTH by comparison). The HTL discs use a metal layer instead of an organic dye (like burnable DVDs), and as such I assume are less prone to rot. So far, my oldest disk, which are about 11 months old, have a perfectly smooth read curve when I tested them last week.

I burn two copies of everything -- one on each brand. I also store them differently -- one in spindle one in book. Furthermore, I use DVDisaster to make ECC files while themselves are stored on BD-Rs (with a duplicate) and protected by ECC at the "high" settting (33.5% redundency).

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