There's not much research to be done prior to getting a DVD burner these days. Gone are those days when one used to search for the reviews on cdfreaks and used to swear by those Benq and Liteon drives. Any drive can burn the data decently well provided the media is good.
Agreed that read/write performance of all drives are more or less the same, but tray getting stuck has always been an issue. From my past experience Samsung & LG were the first ones to show those symptoms