[DM-MUG] Answers to the DVD Issue.

[Ray Bowler]

I burn DVD-R disks and those are the ones which will not work on some players.

At 9:50 PM -0700 6/12/07, AB wrote:
>This is what I have been told and know in regards to blank DVDs.
>
>DVD-Rs are the older disk format, and  should work in any DVD 
>player/ROM/burner.
>
>DVD+Rs are higher quality for audio/video and will work in DVD 
>players/recorders/burners made
>within the past 2-3 years. In DVD devices older than 3 years, it may 
>not play because the device
>was not engineered to read the newer disk format.
>
>The same issue MAY arise with single layer (4.7 GB) versus double 
>layer dvd disks (8 GB)
>
>I use DVD-Rs to reduce the hassle and headache. The older DVD 
>players are nearing the end of their
>product life expectancy. So as they become obsolete, so will this 
>inconvenience.  By then the
>issue will move to HD DVD versus Blu-Ray DVDs.
>
>
>--- Kendall Crouch <kcrouch at i-rule.net> wrote:
>
>>  It can also be the format of the DVD (+R/-R). I sell DVDs and some of 
>>  my customers can only play one format.
>>
>>  Kendall
>>  http://www.klccomputing.com
>>
>>  On Jun 9, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Holly Welch wrote:
>>
>>  > I ran into this when i had the movie club with students. The answer 
>>  > is....some dvd players will play them and some won't. If you are 
>>  > selling them, make sure the people try them in their machines 
>>  > before an important event. I had a family who had to borrow a 
>>  > different dvd player to show theirs at a hall.
>>  > Holly
>>  > On Jun 9, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:
>>  >
>>  >> Thanks. The friend's is an older one and the DVDs play find on 
>>  >> newer ones. Since we will be selling these it will be nice to know.
>>  >>
>>  >> At 7:25 AM -0500 6/9/07, Jon Engelhardt wrote:
>>  >>> Some of the older DVD players will not play not play "home made" 
>>  >>> DVD's.  The technician is wrong.  I have an older DVD player and 
>>  >>> I can't play CD's or DVD's that I make but yet they work fine on 
>>  >>> newer machines or my cars.
>>  >>> Jon
>>  >>> On Jun 9, 2007, at 4:47 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:
>>  >>>
>>  >>>> Hi,
>>  >>>>
>>  >>>> I created a slide show as a movie and burned to a DVD. It plays 
>>  >>>> fine in my DVD player and in several others but when one person 
>>  >>>> tries to play it nothing happens. It works fine on her daughters 
>>  >>>> DVD player and on mine. A technician claims that the DVD is copy 
>>  >>>> protected. Any ideas as to why?
>>  >>>> --
>>  >>>> Ray Bowler
>>  >>>>
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