DVDs I recorded on old DVD will not play on my new one?

Question

I have over 60 DVDs I recorded; so far only 10 of them will play on my new DVD recorder...any ideas as to why??

OK thanks for the answers but guess I"m not getting my point across!! These are ALL +RW, so no incompatibilty on that angle...I don't have a computer I can do stuff like that with....how the heck can this technology be so difficult? they are DVDs from one recorder to play on another; why is this happening to me!!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Some ideas:
One is DVD-R (or DVD-RAM), the other DVD+R
You never finalized those discs that don't play
The old one was actually never a fully compliant recorder, so the new one does not recognize it..
Bad media, dust, etc., unsupported media
The old ones are in re-writables which the new one does not support

Answer 2

Oddly, since DVD recording started to become popular, we've run into what seem like the same exact problems people used to have recording VHS tapes at home: formatting irregularities.

"Back in the old days" (I mean, we're only talking 10 to 15 years ago, sheesh) a VHS tape you recorded on your home VCR would often be unplayable on your friend's VCR or even another VCR in the same house! This was due primarily to head-tracking, and signal synch problems...

Well, the issue you're having is not very different, just think of it as the digital equivalent. I'll bet those same DVD recordings you're having trouble with on your new machine would play just fine on the old one.

Unfortunately, there is no real "fix" for this. The newer player has a lower tolerance for the "sloppy formatting" of your older machine.

One possible solution, especially if your old machine "is no longer with us", is to look for another one like it that works.

You could also try using a computer to remaster, and re-record the old discs onto a new one...but there are no guarantees this last idea would work, for unless your remastering would re-encode the discs into a more modern formatting, you may still have the same unacceptable results.

I think the "spare old player" idea might be the least trouble in the end.

Good luck - and thanks for asking!

Answer 3

ought to count on some aspects. This maching basically writes to dvd+r an dvd+rw disks, possibly your different machines dont help those disks, no longer all do. have you ever as much as date the firmware

Answer 4

the laser is not reading the recordings...and never will. If you have copy dvd on your computer...do that to your home made ones...the copies should play on your new one afterwards...do one only first to make sure it'll play.