If you record a TV show using a DVDR player can you watch the disc on any dvd player?

Question

Let's say you are using the Samsung DVDR135 and a typcial DVD-R disc (say Ritek)
I just ask as I am thinking about buying this drive to copy TV shows for friends, they have a regular DVD player.

Thanks

Answer 1

YOU HAVE TO "FINALIZE" THE DISC ON THE MACHINE IT WAS BURNED ON TO ENSURE COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER PLAYERS.

Answer 2

Yes, like the answers above, you need to close (finalize) the DVD blank media. What the recorder does is create a tail end of information to let other consumer DVD players know how to play it. Also for more compatibility, you need to write at least 1GB file size to work in a lot of DVD players.

Answer 3

One of the "features" of the Toshiba HD DVD system is it did not record. Toshiba hoped that would attract more movie studios to release shows on their HD system because they could not be copied by people at home. You will also notice there are no blank HD DVDs for sale either. A standard DVD or a Blu-ray are not interchangeable.

Answer 4

yes it will work....because a Digital Video Recorder generally records the content that you selected in a DVD-Player friendly format. so all you gotta do is pop that disc in and play it!

Answer 5

A DVD-RAM is a rewritable DVD that functions like a removable hard disk. DVD-RAM media can be rewritten 100,000 times before it is no longer usable. See DVD-RAM.

DVD-R and DVD+R are competing write-once formats for movies or data. DVD-RW and DVD+RW are competing, rewritable (re-recordable) formats that unlike DVD-RAM's 100,000 cycles, can only be rewritten 1,000 times. Aimed at the consumer, 1,000 rewrites is considered more than sufficient. See DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW.

Answer 6

don't noe that ur samsung model.if it's a dvd burner , u don't need to do anything ,it'll b able to play on any fairly new dvd player.if it's a stand alone recorder , then u need to finalized it.

Answer 7

it should work without any problems.