Magnavox MRV 700vr problem

[kevin75]

Hello everyone.

I have searched all over trying to find an answer to my problem and someone pointed me here saying that it could be answered. Admittedly, I am not sure which forum this should go in, so move if need be. My problem is this....

I am trying to make my own dvd's of ed since the official dvd's are nowhere to be seen. I am using my father in law's Magnavox mrv 700vr vcr-dvd combo player to burn copies of the vhs tapes that i recorded. I burned a copy on a memorex dvd+r because the machine says it will only burn on dvd+r/rw. I finalized the disc as it said and seemingly everything went ok, until i tried to play the disc. I tried it on my ps3 (my main dvd player) and my wife's Mintek dvd1600 with no luck. I put in the disc and it wouldn't recognize it. I also tried putting it in my mac, and it wouldn't recognize it either. Just for kicks, I went over to my grandmother's and tried it in my grandmother's cyberhome dvd player and it did recognize it. However, i would really like to use my own ps3 instead of having to go to my grandmother's.

It will work on the magnavox machine that it was burned in, but it won't recognize in most other machines. I then went to Best Buy and got some Sony DVD+R's instead and tried again with the same result.

does anyone have any ideas on why the dvd might not be working or what i could do differently?

thanks.

[wabjxo]

Could be the machines it didn't play in are not +R compatible. That seems the most likely. Have to read the specs on those machines to know.

Only other thing is the media you're using. Memorex is "landfill material" and there's a lot of what I call "Phony Sony" which doesn't have a genuine Sony media code... they just show up as "SONY" not the alphanumeric code of real Sonys.

More likely the former.

[kevin75]

i checked the ps3 and it says that it will play dvd+r's. i have even tried the discs on two differnt ps3's but like my mac, they won't even register,

[wabjxo]

Other than bad media, as I mentioned above, the only other thing might be Finalizing.

Check you disc in the one you created it in and see if there's an "info" screen that shows stats on that disc. One of the items should be "Finalized" or "Not Finalized"... this is just to be absolutely sure.

On a Magnavox with +R, you should be able to arrow up from the highlighted Title (in Title Menu), which brings up a screen with those stats.

[kevin75]

well, i looked and the disc said "finalized". so that being the case, what are some good brands of dvd+r's that ican use? someone on another board mentioned taiyo yuden but i can't get those in my small town. any other choices?

[wabjxo]

At this point, you don't want to get anything but Verbatim. The ONLY other option you could try is to check your local drug store... many people have said they found SONY MIJ (Made in Japan) clearly written on the pkg. Apparently, drug stores don't move a lot of DVD stock, so they sometimes have the "good stuff" still laying around.

In checking pkg closely, try to get discs MIJ or MIT (Taiwan), at the very least.

SOmeone at AVS just mentioned finding a solution to his similar problem: it turned out to be the SW he was using in his laptop. He was using Interactual with the latest codecs, which wouldn't read his discs, and switched to KMPlayer and all his previously "unreadable" discs read just fine!

You can get Taiyo Yuden Premium online at superdmediastore.com or rima.com. (Don't get the "Value Line"... they're supposed to be the T-Y rejects, i.e., slight flaws, etc.)

[PuzZLeR]

Could be one of three things:

1.The brand of disc. Already explained.

2.I still say the culprit could be the "+" media. The common denominator of compatibility is "-" media for video playback. It seems that "+"'s strengths lie for data storage.

3.It could be the finalizing which for some reason isn't standard. If you have access to a PC, use a tool like NeroVision or Imgburn to rip out the contents of this disc, dump on your hard drive and re-author the content to a new disc. If this works out then just use RW media to migrate from your Magvx to your computer.

NeroVision is amazing because it seems to read almost anything you throw at it, including unfinalized discs.

I don't know a good rip/author program on a Mac though.

[adamstrange]

I have the same machine and have used it to burn tons of stuff off of cable.
I'm going to try to get another one off of Ebay because I use the 4 hour setting and the picture quality is very good.

I only use TDK and Memorex DVD+RW and they play perfectly on my PC and on an older Toshiba DVD Player that I have.

Mind you that I never finalize the discs.

I was given 2 older DVD Players,a Panasonic and a JVC and none of the discs would play on them.

I did a search for these models and as it turned out, neither one of these machines would play any DVD's that were recorded on other machines...at least that were the complaints that were posted.