dvd-rw Compatibility

[theboss777]

Hi, I just bought a Cendyne DVR-105 and some maxell DVD-RWs to burn on. The drive is 4Xdvd-r and 2X dvd-rw. The Maxell media is burning fine, its burning at 1x and my cendyne dvd burner reads it just fine, but I have not been able to read it in any other dvd-rom or stand alone that I have tried. I also tried backing up one of my dvds and it worked fine, my cendyne can read it as a dvd, but the unmodded xbox tells me that the movie is the wrong region. Other dvd-roms just spin the disk up then say that the drive is empty. Is there a reason why no other drive can read dvd-rws? Am I doing something wrong, or is it the maxell media or can dvd-rws not be read by non dvd burners? Thanks for any responses.

[pimp97max]

the only DVD-RW i have used was the one that came in the box, and after burning a movie onto it with Nero, it worked perfectly fine in my Apex AD800 DVD player...but of course, this thing plays almost everything thrown at it...but sorry, i have no idea what could be the problem other than the others' non-compatibility with -RWs...unless there is a problem with the closing of the DVD or something like that

[Seraphic]

I have a 4x Cendyne and I have tried Princo, Optodisc and Verbatim DVD-RW 1x and all write fine and read ok in all my Computer DVD-Rom players (Pioneer DVD-103 & DVD-119) and My Toshiba set top DVD player SD2800.

But they will not play in my Toshiba Satellite 2800 laptop DVD-rom. Last night I tried it in my Friend's Dell laptop same problem just spins but doesn't read it.

Whats up with these laptops and DVD-RW?