Question about DVD burning ....
 

I just bought a new computer system (Sony Vaio) and was burning some content onto DVD to send to a client of mine. I burned the DVD and then played it back to make sure that the content burned ok - and it didn't. A friend suggested to use Nero Ultra software so I bought it and it appeared to work. I burned a DVD and played it back on the new system and it worked fine. Then I put that DVD into my older system (also Sony Vaio) and it would not open the DVD - didn't even recognize it???

Any thoughts on what's going on here? Is burning DVDs really this KrAzY? :mad:

weird that meathod should work

Make sure you have "no multisession" selected and finalize the disc.

Thanks for the tip - I'll give that a try. I wonder if there's any name brands
that I should avoid or name brands that work best?

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I burned a dvd+r and it worked in 3 of my dvd players, but not the other 2. I burned dvd-r and it worked. Go figure.

Just FYI, if you are using it to send content to clients, use high quality DVDs. I cannot tell you how many times i've got content from people using shitty DVDs and I end up with CRC errors on the discs. (I never buy from them again). Make sure you use DVD-R and not DVD+R and do not burn multisession.

You might try different DVD's since there's a ton of different dvd-r dvd+r dvd-blueray and all that shit. Might make a difference to some players (if they are older as you said)

The DVD's that I bought and used are dvd+r....I had no idea there was a dvd-r. Luckily, I only bought a small 25 disc page on sale for $10. They are HP brand (Hewlett Packard) so I thought they would be a good choice.

What's the diff between dvd+r and dvd-r?

Some research on dvd-r and dvd+r pulls up this:

*DVD-R is a non-rewriteable format and it is compatible with about 93% of all DVD Players and most DVD-ROMs.

*DVD+R is a non-rewritable format and it is compatible with about 89% of all DVD Players and most DVD-ROMs.

DVD-R/RW was developed by Pioneer. Based on CD-RW technology, it uses a similar pitch of the helix, mark length of the 'burn' for data, and rotation control. DVD-R/RW is supported by the DVD Forum, an industry-wide group of hardware and software developers, and computer peripheral manufacturers. The DVD-R format has been standardized in ECMA-279 by the Forum, but this is a private standard, not an 'industry' ISO standard like the CD-R/RW Red Book or Orange Book standard.

DVD+R/RW is also based on CD-RW technology. DVD+R/RW is supported by Sony, Philips, HP, Dell, Ricoh, Yamaha, and others, and has recently been endorsed by Microsoft. DVD+R/RW is not supported by the DVD Forum, but the Forum has no power to set industry standards, so it becomes a market-driven issue.

Use a good brand DVD-R, not DVD+R if you can avoid it. I bought a 75-pak of Memorex recently and they work fine. I use Roxio software, Nero many others work fine too. If you have continued problems make sure you have almost nothing running in the background, anti-virus, other background processes etc while you are burning a disk.

I bought a 15 pack of maxell dvd-r and they're working just fine for me. They work in all my dvd players. My burner is a sony dvd +/- r/rw.

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