The cost of blanks is indeed scandalous.
One of the problems I have run across with BD-RE is that the reflectivity on these is even worse than with regular BD-R discs, and I have seen time & again test discs failing when burned to 50Gb -RE media yet the same compile put to a regular BD-R 50 plays fine.
There are other problems too - If a title is to be replicated then the only sensible option is to get test pressings supplied otherwise you run a very real risk of replicating a batch of faulty discs as the image you will be burning to test media is not the same image that gets glass mastered at the factory because the replication master is AACS scrambled whereas your test version is not, so if the only testing being done is with the burned disc then you are literally not testing the image that gets replicated.
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