In the Last recent months I have become more interested in burning DVD. I have successfully burned 15 movies ranging from divx, avi to .vob, iso. I had justed used my last sony DVD-R verison 2.0. On a movie. The next day I wanted to burn another movie so I had have to open up the other pack of blank dvds. These were DVD+R made by sony verison 1.1. The two different verison of the dvd's throw me off considerating that I bought them at the same time. I went to burn the a DVD onto the DVD+R. I thought it burned correctly because it stated that there was no errors. By the way I was using DVDsanta v3.45. I did a test run on the dvd player in my living room and it worked. Then later on that nighty went to watch in my DVD player that I bought just for the burned DVD because on the box it said plays DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-+RW. When I put it in it said that it was bad disk. My question to you guys is it the DVD player having trouble reading the disc because of scratches or what not. It did not burn 100% correctly and the first DVD player did not catch it and the Second one did. Or it was bad media. I am not even sure if there is a answer to this question. Anyone with some info on this kinda of topic please respond. Thanks, Prodigy420
Tons of players are notoriously sensitive to a wide variety of media. I just went through this myself. My problems were over when I purchased a new 1080i upconvert Toshiba from Best buy for $149. Big risk considering Toshiba recently settled a lawsuit because their players weren't playing secondary media. Also keep in mind that manufacturing standards suck so sometimes exchanging a player for an identical one can do the trick also. Hope that helped.
I'm thinking it's your media. The problem with store-bought media is that the people who sell it (Sony, Fuji, etc.) aren't necessarily the manufacturers of the media, and there can be a handful of different manufacturers' media in a spindle. Memorex is the worst of them. Stay away from Memorex if you can. To find out who really made your media you can download a program called DVD Identifier, just google it. The best media can only be found online. These are Taiyo Yuden, Ritek, some people say Verbatim is good too (those can be found in stores). Buying online is also cheaper than in stores. Good sites to get media from are supermediastore.com, rima.com, meritline.com, newegg.com. I would suggest only buying from one of these sites, other sites sell fake media sometimes.
