Philips DVP 642

[pasqda_ct]

I get this dvd player as a gift ( like 1-2 years ago), my ex did everything for me to upgrade and other stuff. It played everything, dvix, dvd... now i have a dvd recordable which i burned in Poland. It is not working. it "freeze" while loading. can anyone help me and tell me if i can do anything with it(except buying new player, or buying new movie but in us ) to watch those movies what i burned in Poland?? please help me, i am frustrated .. ;(

[jagabo]

Were those disks finalized? I seem to recall that the 642 would lockup like that with unfinalized DVDs.

[pasqda_ct]

finalized... hmm in Poland probably. I am kind of "blond" with that. but excatly my friend burned dvd on his loptop in Poland. but i found out that there may be a problem with disks, that if they were burned on a special dvd-burner i cannot open them on other dvd players...or something like that. i have no idea. i am looking for any help with this.

[jagabo]

DVDs have a table of contents (TOC), much like a book. When writing files to a DVDR you can choose to use multisession. This lets you write a few files to one "session" one day, then come back and add a more files to another session later. All of this is done without writing to the TOC (because you can only write the TOC once). Finalizing (sometimes called "closing") the disk is mostly a matter of writing the TOC.

The Philips DVP-642 doesn't know how to read multiple sessions, it only looks at the TOC. If a disk hasn't been finalized there will be no TOC. If I remember correctly, the player will eventually (a few minutes?) spit the disk out and give a "no disk" error message.

[pasqda_ct]

thank you. i will check the disks. i hope it will help

[handyguy]

Did you try to make it region free?
Instructions:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers

[pasqda_ct]

i think my ex did that after he gave me the player. but i will check