Dell Notebook not playing DVD-R's?

Question

I have an Inspiron B130 laptop with a CD-RW/DVD drive; I can play/burn CD's--but only play DVD's on that drive.I also have a Samsung DVD-R130 Player Burner.

I burned some TV shows from old videotapes onto DVD-R's. The type of DVD-R's I used were blank Sony DVD's)

The recorded DVD's play fine in the DVD player (the player/recorder). But when I put them into my notebook, they do not play. They do not show up as a source in My Computer.

I'm stumped. I tried to contact Dell and run Diagnostics. The diagnostics failed, and a new drive is being sent to me for my notebook.

The question is this....aren't CD-RW/DVD drives supposed to play MOST dvd's--even homemade ones?

Regular DVD's play fine, and music cd's also play fine. But DVD-R's will not. I'm worried the same thing may happen with the new drive. And I've never noticed this before, since I usually use music CD's, software, or regular DVD's in my laptop.

Help please....Thanks!

This is the drive I have...

YC494 -->ASSEMBLY, COMPACT DISK READ WRITE/DIGITAL VIDEO DISK DRIVE COMBO, 24X, HITACHI LG DATA STORAGE, SULLIVAN/TOBAGO, V2

**It is more than 8x....and I can only PLAY dvd's-not burn them. I burned the DVD-R's on a separate DVD Recorder attached to my TV.

Still can't play the DVD-R's... : ^ (

Answer 1

There were no notebooks in my day

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Your drive is CD-RW/DVD. With that, you can only burn CDs, but play both cd's and dvd's. You would need 8x CD/DVD RW (DVD+/-RW) in order to burn both CDs and DVDs