I have 3 dvd players both the oldest & the newest play dvdr's I burn with my home computer just fine. The dvd player I bought just about 2 years or so ago will only play a few (very few) of them & it doesn't seem to matter whether they're + or -?
2006-07-13 06:30:30 · 4 answers · asked by rf186 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
It's the same thing with new CD players. First they had CD-R, so CD players started to be able to play those. But if you buy a CD player now, it plays CD's, CD-R's and CD-RW's. It's just that older technology isn't always going to work new technology
2006-07-13 06:35:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a collection of DVD Frisbees to prove that not all players like all media. I have 10 different makers DVD-R's. I have found that ones that work on one player will not work at all on another. I burn a test clip to all the media and try them on every different player to find out what works on that player. Some are sensitive to burn speed. So I always burn at the slowest speed for players. I reserve the fast speed for computer use only. But that has gotten me in trouble also as I now have Data DVDs that cannot be read because the drive I burned them on died.
2006-07-13 15:43:25 · answer #2 · answered by bondoman01 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because : 1 technology changes.
2. It is the way the DVD player was made and function.
If it is important to you that you player be able to play dvd+/-r, then when you buy a player make sure that it can by looking on the specs, they tell what functions your dvd player can do.
2006-07-13 16:58:51 · answer #3 · answered by coco2591 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would only add that you should try different brands of media. I have made DVD+R recordings and sent them to about a dozen people, and so far no-one has complained. Maybe your recorder drive is defective.
2006-07-13 16:12:46 · answer #4 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋