They Play & They Don't Play???

Ray Musicbear · Post by **Ray Musicbear** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:24 pm

Have created two DVD's now, once with UVS8, using all of the reccomended procedures and once with UVS9, going with all the defaults.

The DVD plays fine on my computer, but when I put it into my home system DVD player, I get the message, "Disk is dirty or scratched"

Neither of tht two disks play in my home DVD player...

Please help, any thoughts?

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:30 pm

Could be that the standalone DVD player doesn't like the type of media (DVD-R/DVD+R,DVD-RW,DVD+RW), or the media itself. You can go to www.videohelp.com and see what types of media your player will accept.

I've got a Panasonic that comes with a warning that it will only play pressed disks, and I've confirmed that it doesn't like -R or +R, though against all expectations it will play -RW.

Some burners also have "booktype" or "bitsetting" support that can make a +R or +RW disk appear to be a DVD-ROM, which helps with compatibility.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:50 pm

Just a footnote to Torsten's advice: there is widespread experience (including my own) that "brand" name stand-alone DVD players are usually the most picky in playing home-made DVDs. On the other hand, the cheaper (Chinese?) models seem happy to play almost anything put into them. I have seen this repeatedly, with models like sony, Philips, TEAC all either refusing to play discs (including DVDs, VCDs and especially SVCDs), or playing DVDs in particular blockily (lots of pixellation) or stopping and starting or jumping. By contrast, the cheap models (I paid about US$50 for mine in a supermarket here is Australia, but they go as cheap as about $30) play all of my discs with no problems at all, including, I remember, one DVD which I had covered with a paper label back in the days when I did not know better, and which put the delicate balance of the disc out of whack. My other player (a brand model) had simply refused to even see it.

Ray Musicbear · Post by **Ray Musicbear** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:37 am

Thanks guys, for your replies...

I checked on the DVD player I have, and, sure enough, it says it does NOT play DVD-R; DVD+R etc. Hit the nail right on the head.

Frustrating...

Thanks again!

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:03 am

Ray,

Goto the panasonic web site and take a look at their
"Multi-Format" dvd carosel dvd players.
Nice units, they play all the formats including dvd-audio,
jpeg picture slideshows, mpg3 audio etc.
With these units you can use a sony camcorder that records onto
a dvd-rw in -vr mode and play them back right away.
No finalizing of the disk is necessary either so one doesn't have
to close the dvd.

Hope this helps,

MD

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:29 pm

One other thing to note is a computer DVD/CD player is more robust that a regular standalone andwill play discs that there's no standalone will play.