DVD media compatability with standalone player

[clanger]

Hi All !

Sorry if this is the wrong forum !

I've got a REC DVD3000 player which i've chipped so that it's region free.
What I'm trying to figure out is which recordable format it's compatible with. I want to buy a burner, but if it wont play the disk's its a bit pointless.

I've borrowed some burn't disks of a friend who's got a Pioneer A03 and it plays some of them but not all.....
some it completly ignores, others it'll play about 20 minutes of a film then the picture breaks up and the player stops,while some it plays fine.

So I'm not sure if it's due to the player not liking dvd-r's or something he's doing when he encodes movies.
Unfortunately I don't know anyone with a +r burner so I can't check them and trying to find any info, let alone a web address for REC is impossible !!

Any comments ?!

Cheers !

[K2]

Did you check the DVD player section on the left of the screen?

8)

[clanger]

Yep, checked that, unfortunately it only lists the 850 and R800, not the model i've got.

[zzyzzx]

You DVD manual might say if it plays DVD-R's, etc.

Also, I happen to have 2 DVD players that are the same make & model. One plays my DVD-R just fine. The other plays it until about 5 minutes before the end then stops.

[doom969]

It can also depend of the software used to burn discs...

Ex.: My Zenith dvd doesnt read dvd burned with RecordNow-Max but read very well those burned wih other software.

[clanger]

Thanks for the replies,
I think what I need to do is borrow a selection of disks, different makes etc, find out what they were authored and burnt with and see which ones work.
Hopefully then I can work out if it's worth me buying a writer...... mind you I have a PS2 so i can also use that if it'll play dvd-r's ! 8)