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Backed Up Home Movies Do Not Play On Portible DVD player?

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Coldkilla

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We were driving up to Canada for the weekend and we brought along some DVD's to show some of our relatives who haven't been apart of our lives the last few years. I wanted to show them our Vacation DVD to Las Vegas that I had backed up so I could give them this copy after the trip.

However.. the DVD didn't work on the Portable DVD Player. We tried it on their DVD player that they brought along when we got home from our trip, but that didn't work ether.. Or the Xbox 360..for that matter.

But for some reason it works on our $300+ dollar Sony DVD Recorder... Any idea why? I just reburnt the DVD and thought it might have been the DVD... but it wasn't. The DVD is a "DVD -R".. the DVD Burner is: "A DVD +RW/-RW"... I tried burning a +RW but it failed twice... So really -R is all I can burn. Are newer appliances all DVD +R now? What am I missing here?
 
Try different brand media. Recordables (+R/-R) will always work better than rewritables (+RW/-RW). The difference between plus and minus media isn't as big, but I've had less trouble with +R. Buy some decent quality +R or -R media and burn at 4X.
 
the problem is most portable dvd players have HORRIBLE lasers. they spare no loss of profit on the lasers, i bet they make those things for 20 cents a pop. the best you can do is always buy tiayo yuden disks, and eventually give up and just buy a laptop to watch movies on.
 
DVD Shink is a good way to go, as well as getting good compatible media (not your 100DVD's for $5.00 junk). I use it to shrink to 4.7GB and it does a great job. I think the latest version is 3.2 (plus it saves the original from being destroyed, at least it does in my house, darn rug rats....). Definately try it on non Rewritable.

I have had zero issue using verbatim (from newegg) dvd (I use +R, -R and +RW). I play them on 8+ year old dvd players, new ones, and portable junk $50 players (xmas sale).

Good Luck

Solas
 
Originally posted by: dwcal
Try different brand media. Recordables (+R/-R) will always work better than rewritables (+RW/-RW). The difference between plus and minus media isn't as big, but I've had less trouble with +R. Buy some decent quality +R or -R media and burn at 4X.
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Interesting, my brother has had more trouble with +R than -R.

I wish there was one standard that just worked, like CDs.
 
Your settop recorder likely did not use a standard file name extension. Copy it to a hard drive, change the extension, and reburn.
 
90% of the time, it's bad media.

People go for cheap, crappy media, paying $15 for a pack of 100 Memorex recordable discs, or other Z-grade dye, and they wonder why the burned discs are unreadable...

 
Another plus for choosing DVD +R media is that you can set the booktype of the DVD to DVD-ROM, giving it the greatest stand-alone playback compatibility. It could also be the media and the speed at which you burnt the DVD as well, as others have suggested
 
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