[DM-MUG] Answers to the DVD Issue.

[AB]

This is what I have been told and know in regards to blank DVDs.

DVD-Rs are the older disk format, and  should work in any DVD player/ROM/burner. 

DVD+Rs are higher quality for audio/video and will work in DVD players/recorders/burners made
within the past 2-3 years. In DVD devices older than 3 years, it may not play because the device
was not engineered to read the newer disk format.

The same issue MAY arise with single layer (4.7 GB) versus double layer dvd disks (8 GB) 

I use DVD-Rs to reduce the hassle and headache. The older DVD players are nearing the end of their
product life expectancy. So as they become obsolete, so will this inconvenience.  By then the
issue will move to HD DVD versus Blu-Ray DVDs. 


--- Kendall Crouch <kcrouch at i-rule.net> wrote:

> It can also be the format of the DVD (+R/-R). I sell DVDs and some of  
> my customers can only play one format.
> 
> Kendall
> http://www.klccomputing.com
> 
> On Jun 9, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Holly Welch wrote:
> 
> > I ran into this when i had the movie club with students. The answer  
> > is....some dvd players will play them and some won't. If you are  
> > selling them, make sure the people try them in their machines  
> > before an important event. I had a family who had to borrow a  
> > different dvd player to show theirs at a hall.
> > Holly
> > On Jun 9, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks. The friend's is an older one and the DVDs play find on  
> >> newer ones. Since we will be selling these it will be nice to know.
> >>
> >> At 7:25 AM -0500 6/9/07, Jon Engelhardt wrote:
> >>> Some of the older DVD players will not play not play "home made"  
> >>> DVD's.  The technician is wrong.  I have an older DVD player and  
> >>> I can't play CD's or DVD's that I make but yet they work fine on  
> >>> newer machines or my cars.
> >>> Jon
> >>> On Jun 9, 2007, at 4:47 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I created a slide show as a movie and burned to a DVD. It plays  
> >>>> fine in my DVD player and in several others but when one person  
> >>>> tries to play it nothing happens. It works fine on her daughters  
> >>>> DVD player and on mine. A technician claims that the DVD is copy  
> >>>> protected. Any ideas as to why?
> >>>> --
> >>>> Ray Bowler
> >>>>
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