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Better late than never, but here's an update on my experience so far.
As for disks, Verbatim Datalife DVD+R 4X do burn @ 8X on my 708A. The bad news is that they won't play on my standalone. So I am now using Datalife DVD-R, which only burn @ 4X but DO play fine on my standalone. The 30 pk. spindle runs about $38. I haven't seen anything that can touch that.
I also experimented with SEVERAL programs and methods. From the feedback posted, no one mentioned one of the proggies I'm using.
Running AnyDVD in the background (for the obvious), I rip using Nero Recode2. The other proggies mentioned above, and at least 2 others that I tried, don't match the encode that Recode gives. The picture is noticeably better than with DVDShrink, for example. I do however choose to do a 2-pass rip for insurance. Only one word of caution: Recode does some of your thinking for you as far as settings. So check them to see what it's omitting. It automatically takes the foreign audio out, and sets the compression individually on each part. Optionally, I've set it to "rip & burn" or I just rip and burn later with Nero.
Again, thanks for all the input, and I recommend the above method.
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