Panasonic DVD player made not to play +R/RW ?

[vtecwil]

I picked up a panasonic DVD-CV47 5 disc changer last night . I thought it might be nice to be able to have many discs ready to go . I mainly use DVD+R media so I have a lot of backups on them . The box said DVD-R compatible , but I have been able to get +R to play on all the players I have . These players include a Panasonic DVD-RV31 that is three years old , and it plays -R , +R , and +RW . This player will not play +R , or +RW . It just sits there reading the disc until you stop it . The strange thing is most of the time when a player cant play a disc it tells you NO DISC , or CANNOT PLAY THIS TYPE OF DISC , or a message to that effect . I believe that because of Panasonics entry into the DVD recorder market with the -R alliance they have made this player able to recognize and not play +R/RW . This is just my belief , so I am open to all suggestions why this modern player will not play +R/RW when my three year old one from the same company will .

[tompika]

Panasonic players seem to suffer from a particular genetic "disease" which forces them to misbehave on +R/RW discs. Since Panasonic has a high market share, if we weighted our findings based on this fact we would have certainly obtained even better compatibility results concerning the DVD-R/RW formats.

Some will say this is a conspiracy theory what vtecwil is saying but what should I think when cheapo Chinese standalone players (got two of them) play both formats without a hitch but these new Panasonic models refuse to play DVD+R(W).

I'm glad that I'm able to fool these evil players with DVD-ROM or DVD-R booktype.
(as I've done it several times)

I'm also glad that a dual writer owner came up with this question.

[vtecwil]

I'm going to play around with some burning programs and see if I can fool this sucker , but I've got too much invested in +R so its still going back . No more Panasonic anything for me .

[tompika]

Try to make an ISO image from the VIDEO_TS folder using ImgTool Classic
and burn it with DVD Decrypter.

They say its more compatible (?)

[Dubber]

Just thought I'd share that my Panas RV32 DOES play DVD+RW disks. Never tried DVD+R disks thou.

[Popee]

I have a Panasonic S35, which is a current DVD player sold just about everywhere, and it plays everything. DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW even VCD, SVCD, and CVD. In fact, I use more DVD+R media than anything else, since there are better deals on 4x media locally. BTW I have a Sony DRU500AX.

I burn all my DVD's with either Nero Express 5.5 or DVD Architect.

[vtecwil]

Riddle me this , if the current single disc Panasonics play +R/RW why wont the five disc changer play them ? Just curious because I already have a nice single disc player ( JVC S500BK ) . This player will do VCD , XVCD , SVCD , XVCD , DVD -R / -RW / +R / +RW , MP3 , and JPEG . I want a compatible changer .