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Question on the new DVD-RW burners... Can be read in regular DVD-rom?

Evadman

Evadman

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I am looking at getting a DVD-RW, and was wondering if the disks burned in the new DVD-RW drives can now be read in a regular DVD player ( like a movie player, not just another computer drive )

Last I heard, the disks did not have enough reflection to be played in a regular DVD drive. Anyone heard different?
 
VCDhelp.com says:

70% of DVD+RW discs,
70% of DVD-RW discs,
90% of DVD-R discs can be read in a standard DVD player.

Fortunately, a DVD-RW will burn DVD-R discs.
 
I've burned a few discs as UDF/ISO that play fine in DVD-ROM drives. I haven't been able to get a DATA DVD to play in a DVD-ROM drive yet. I'm using NERO and I've tried straight ISO, UDF/ISO and UDF and it just doesn't seem to work. Maybe a firmware upgrade is needed.
 
A friend of mine has a G4 tower with a DVD-RW and all the UDF DVD-R and DVD-RW discs we burned read fine in my laptop DVD drive.
 
Nothinman, how were they burnt? Were they movies or were they data? Which program did he use and which options were selected?
 
Normal UDF data DVDs, we never tried a movie because the software limits you to 60 minutes per disc to stop you from copying DVD movies and we didn't have any <60m mpgs around.

Think we used both Roxio Toast and the built in software.
 
Damn, I'm an idiot. I never thought to try a different DVD-ROM drive until today. All the other drives I tested can read the disc perfectly. Guess my old DVD-ROM just doesn't support DVD-R. Thanks for all the help.
 


<< VCDhelp.com says:

70% of DVD+RW discs,
70% of DVD-RW discs,
90% of DVD-R discs can be read in a standard DVD player.

Fortunately, a DVD-RW will burn DVD-R discs. >>



I have an HP DVD-100i, I can't even get it to recognize a DVD-R disc as valid media. I am currently trying to use the software that came with the drive from HP. Is there a hack or better software that might help me burn DVD-R discs?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
We have yet to get a DVD-RW disc to work with our consumer DVD player, but the DVD+RW discs work fine.

My money is on DVD+RW in the long run.
 


<< We have yet to get a DVD-RW disc to work with our consumer DVD player, but the DVD+RW discs work fine.

My money is on DVD+RW in the long run. >>

It depends on the DVD player but DVD+RW is not the format to use if you want maximum compatibility. Neither is DVD-RW. If anything it'd be DVD-R, and potentially DVD+R, but the latter is not yet available. DVD-R is MUCH more compatible than both DVD+RW and DVD-RW.


<< I have an HP DVD-100i, I can't even get it to recognize a DVD-R disc as valid media. I am currently trying to use the software that came with the drive from HP. Is there a hack or better software that might help me burn DVD-R discs? >>

Ummmm... The DVD-100i ONLY supports DVD+RW. It does not support DVD-R. It seems that HP won't be able to incorporate DVD+R support in future firmware updates either:

"The DVD+RW developers group will be introducing a high-reflectivity DVD+R media that should be readable by more drives and players. However, the DVD 100i won't be able to write to DVD+R without a firmware upgrade, which HP doesn't plan on providing."
 
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