Area Limitations

[jmsrickland]

What does this mean?

My brother-in-law sent me two DVD's of the family get-together.

One was burned on a +RW and it played OK.

The other was burned on a +R but did not play. When I put it in the DVD player a message came on the screen:

Playback prohibited by area limitations

I put that disk in the PC and DVD Shrink read it in without any problems so I had Shrink re-burn it back out on a -R DVD. When I put my copy of the DVD in the DVD player it had the same message. I tried the disk on three different DVD player/recorders but still the same message.

[dnix71]

It could be one of two things. One of the discs may be PAL and the other NTSC and your dvd player can only play one. A computer wouldn't normally have that limitation.

The other is that there is a region code on the disc that does not match the player. In this case I don't think that's your problem because these were home movies.

[jmsrickland]

I know that it is not PAL. Both discs are NTSC. There is no way my brother-in-law could have made a PAL. He told me that they were both burned from the same machine and using the same parameters.

I also know that it is not the region code.

Is there something about a +R that differs from a -R? Seems I read that the +R has some additional things that need to be done that you dont have to do on a -R disc.