I have an older Daewoo multiregion player that has trouble with certain types of DVDRs. Ones that feature the generic "Title 1, Title 2, etc" menus freeze at the startup in my player (usually from DVD recorders recording from a tape or television). On the other hand, ones where I've gotten creative and made a custom menu (usually with Nero Vision Express) for the start screen play fine.

My newer, cheaper, R1 player will play just about anything (including all DVDRs) but I'm just wondering why my older player is so particular. DVD+R vs DVD-R does not seem to be the problem. I haven't kept track of all the various brands because some of those DVDrs have been made more me (stuff recorded off of foreign TV, short films from the pre-DV days that had to be digitized). Is there a fix or should I just leave my multi-region to play, well, multi-region discs (I won't even go into scaling problems with PAL anamorphic discs).