Exact copy of DVD plays, original won't

[westbrookmedia]

Can someone explain this to me? I burned serveral copies of DVD's on a JVC m100s recorder. Not a single one would play on my SONY, but would play elsewhere. I took the disk, put it in my SONY pc writer and made and exact copy, now it plays! Is someone making voodoo dolls of me and my disks, or is there some reasonale explaination for this?

[chas0039]

My guess would be you are looking at a problem of some type having to do with +R or +RW media. A number of players have trouble and it is possible your Sony burner (none are made by Sony, they just rebadge) is bitsetting the disc which will make it readable. It is also possible that your disc from the JVC was nor finalized.

[westbrookmedia]

Well... the JVC only burns DVD-R disks and I definately finalized all of them. What is bit setting? Something the DVD writer is doing is making my disks playable in this one particular player (also a SONY). The original disks play in everything else in the house.

I find this technology ever more curious. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know!

[westbrookmedia]

I just found a link to bit setting info while reading another post.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/150

[ark]

Bitsetting is for DVD+R. Did you burn all of them the same way (DVD-Video or ISO-UDF with UDF being 1.02)? Some DVD players would accept disks of ISO-UDF1.02, some must have once burnt as DVD-Video otherwise would not play!!! I am also a novice in this matter really, would not know what is the difference between the two types. But from experience - if you burn as DVD-Video, it would play on almost 98% of the stand-alone players manufactured.

[davideck]

You are not alone, westbrookmedia.
One of my SONY DVD changers refuses to recognize any DVD-R finalized in a JVC M100, Panasonic ES20, or Toshiba RD-KX50. I get the dreaded "Disc Dirty" C 13 00 error. ISO copies of these discs burned on the PC play back fine. The original discs play fine on other players, including other SONYs.

I've also tried several brands/speeds of media.

[parallax1]

My guess would be you are looking at a problem of some type having to do with +R or +RW media.

Whoops...


Why are people so quick to STILL blame any problem on +R and +RW? I had more success (when it really WAS an issue) with them than with -R on my DVD players.

[trhouse]

Did you change media brands between the original and the exact copy? For example, did you burn the original to Ritek media then make an exact copy to Verbatim media?

[westbrookmedia]

Did you change media brands between the original and the exact copy? For example, did you burn the original to Ritek media then make an exact copy to Verbatim media?

No, same media from same spindle... TDK DVD-R

[mats.hogberg]

Well, I've had a player where (some) commercial (pressed) discs wouldn't play, but my backups of the same would. I'd consider it one of those great mysteries of life, that it's better (for your mental stability) to just accept and move on.

/Mats

[ROF]

@mats

hey you got one of those too? I call mine an OPPO player or Original Plays Perfectly Occasionally.

[mats.hogberg]

Nope, it was a Centrum, AKA Vestel, VESEG & c. It was at the end of it's life it started acting up like this.

/Mats