LightScribd DVD-R playback issues- ??

[jdwgroup]

I’m puzzled on DVD-R’s. I’ve been transferring Hi8 mm tapes and burning DVD’s for some years. Recently, I got a light scribe DVD burner- something to mark the DVDs with, better than paper or ink. I’ve always used DVD-R’s, and have never had an issue- till these Light Scribe DVD’s.
I burnt a Light Scribe DVD for my parents, and they said it wouldn’t play something about the player saying ‘bad disk’.
Hum- well, perhaps I fat fingered something. So I burned 2 more, one on a Light Scribe, the other on a regular DVD (both –R). The Light Scribe wouldn’t play on their DVD deck, but the non- Light Scribe did. (Deck does play -R's)
When I got home, I put both Light Scribes in all 3 of my DVD players- and all 3 will play both Light Scribe DVD’s.
What’s up with that? Both ate the same style/format, the Light Scribe are HP while the regular are Maxwell, but that shouldn’t matter- should it? If a DVD is a bad copy- it’s a bad copy (isn’t it?)

I’m using (and have been using) Ulead MSP7, MF and MVS as well as Adobe PE4 on Vista Home (but that shouldn’t matter)
This only popped up with the Light Scribe DVD’s
Can there be such variations of manufactured DVD's that 1 player can be more sensitive to a (lesser) brand of DVD-R than another?
If so- what are the best DVDS-Rs for 'sure' playback?
Any ideas??

[aedipuss]

the brand printed on top of or the outside container label of the blanks matters not an iota. the only thing that has any significance is the original manufacturer of the blank. if it isn't a verbatim or t.y. dvdr it is junk.

use something like imgburn to find the real producer of the blank.