Panasonic E55- Won't play DVD-r's

[SquireC]

Recently bought an E55 and it records fine on DVD-r and DVD-RAM. These DVD-R recordings play fine on my PC and Standalone DVD player. Strange thing is ... any DVD-R's (copies of original DVD's ) recorded on my PC as back-ups won't play on the E55, but the original will.

( I do copies for my cousin .... long story here ... )

Is this something to do with the E55 looking for an encryption that Shrink has taken off?

Message shown is .... No disc !!

Any ideas m8's ??

[gshelley61]

Your Panasonic may not like the particular brand of media (DVD-R) that you are using, or there may be some compatibility issues with the burner in your computer.

[handyguy]

Try some panasonic media.

My e30 plays everything I put in it. But I only use Accu media for writing in it.

In the future, you can save us time i fyou give us your specs.

[SquireC]

The blanks are ARITA (Riteks, G04 dye) and dont have a problem with compatability on other machines. I have also used some TDK DVD-R's as well as the Panasonic DVD-R's and all seem to experience the same problem........the Recorder simply doesn't recognise them......that is why I think it is looking for an encription or encoding and a copied DVD that Shrink etc has taken all encription/region codes etc off. That is why I think the recorder is not seeing these discs.

Any other ideas would be much welcomed.

[ofbarea]

Funny thing. My E55 does not have problem reading +r or +RW backups.

[victoriabears]

stupid suggestion, I am full of em.

Burn a copy of the dvd-r that won't play, or use dvd shrink to copy it onto a dvd-rw or dvd+r or +rw, my e55 plays everything, I was amazed.

Will only record onto dvd-r or ram though-sigh.

[hammy]

The blanks are ARITA (Riteks, G04 dye) and dont have a problem with compatability on other machines. I have also used some TDK DVD-R's as well as the Panasonic DVD-R's and all seem to experience the same problem........the Recorder simply doesn't recognise them......that is why I think it is looking for an encription or encoding and a copied DVD that Shrink etc has taken all encription/region codes etc off. That is why I think the recorder is not seeing these discs.

Any other ideas would be much welcomed.

It may be the programme your using to burn the discs.

I used to use intervideoDVDcopy 2 and some copies would play in some machines but not others, it was really a hit or miss whether they would play in other mahines and it had nothing to do with the discs having used a variety of discs. Some Discs actually played no bother in some machines, some took about 5 minutes to load before they eventually played and others just didn't play at all.

Since i got TMPGEnc DVD author for editing stuff from my E50 on PC and used it's own burning tool, i have not had the problem since.

Just a thought.


Hammy

[gshelley61]

I have an E50 Panasonic DVD recorder and use DVDShrink with Nero 6 to backup to DVD-R. I have two quad-format DVD burners.. a Sony DRU-510A and an LG 4082B. I use both of them, but mostly the LG these days.

No problems playing the DVD-R's on the Panasonic or the other four DVD players I have, either.

[SquireC]

Thanks for the tips. Can't see why the burning using NERO should be any different than burning CopyDVD (Which I have been using till now) but I will give it a go and let folks know what happens.

Thanks M8's

[SquireC]

Well wot can I say.......

I don't understand why but the use of the NERO 6 software to burn the DVD-R's has worked and I can now read/playback the DVD's I've processed on my PC on my Panasonic E55. PROMLEM SOLVED!!!

Many thanks for the tips M8's........

Regards