DVD media compatibility question

[Peter Schenk]

When I rent a DVD, or purchase a DVD movie it plays on all DVD players, even my son's old Mitsubishi DD-3000.
Now when I burn a DVD with a Pioneer S201, Pioneer DVR-103 or Sony DRU-500A there is always a player that will not play the burned disk, especially the Mitsubishi DD-3000. I can use a DVD-R, or DVD+R or DVD-R/W, no matter, the disks never play uniformly the same as the rental or commercial movies.

Why?

Looking forward to your answers,

Peter Schenk
pwschenk@earthlink.net

[jamerican]

Commercial DVD's are recognized by players as DVD-ROM discs. Burned DVD+/- R's are not recognized as DVD-ROM, that, in my opinion, is why there is an inconsistency in players reading them. The only way I know of to achieve universal compatibility is to burn them as DVD-ROM discs, and this is only capable with very few burners using DVD+R blanks with a bitsetting tool. If you do a search under hardware for burners that offer bitsetting, you will find the few that can do this. Hope this helps.

[sabercats]

Hi Peter,

Question, is that DVD-R, DVD+R or DVD-RW have the same company ? I have the problem before with the cheap media.
1. Before I have use DVD-R CompUSA 1X, it can not play in my Panasonic Home Theater which I bought 3 yrs ago, so I think it is too old to regcognize DVD-R or +R because the same disk, I can play in the other 3 DVD Players.
2. Then I borrowed my friend DVD+R from CompUSA 2X, it can not play in my Panasonic and also can not play with the other 3 DVD Players so I thought none of my 4 DVD players can play DVD+R.

But when I bought DVD-R Ritek 04, it can play on my 4 DVD Players . It tell me that it depend on the media, so I bought Fuji and Imation 4X DVD+R and tried with my 4 DVD Players, all of them can play as well. Now it tell me that if you have a good media, all the DVD players will play. I tried to test with my friends who tell me his DVD can not play DVD+R and yes, I am right, I prove that good media will play on all DVD.

Try it and let me know what you think. Buy a good media and test all of your DVD and pleasae let me know if I am wrong.
Cheers,

[tompika]

if you have a good media, all the DVD players will play. I tried to test with my friends who tell me his DVD can not play DVD+R and yes, I am right, I prove that good media will play on all DVD.

Try it and let me know what you think. Buy a good media and test all of your DVD and pleasae let me know if I am wrong.
Cheers,

Yes media quality is important, but...
There are players that simply refuse to play DVD+R/W just because of their original booktype no matter what quality they are.

[Tom81]

CDRinfo.com
tested dvd+R with booktype DVD-rom (hp and phillips burners) and still found dvd-r to be more compatible.
Plextor technical support told me:

" The kludge that is mentioned on some newsgroups to change the 'book type' of a disc is something that only works on Ricoh drive mechanisms and isn't required on home dvd players that actually meet the specs for recordable media. Plextor doesn't use Ricoh mechanisms. The best solution would be to have your dvd player updated to properly support recordable media if it doesn't now." .....Plextor

[tompika]

Hey Tom81!

I have burned about a thousand DVD+R's with my old Ricoh5125 clone.
The only reason I burn DVD-R's with my Pioneer106 is that some 2xDVD-R's are dirt-cheap.
There is no compatibility differences between those DVD+R's (ROM booktype) and the DVD-R's I write these days, believe me.

Of course I did not use ARCSoft's burning engine like cdrinfo did but NERO, RNM and Decrypter.

Plextor technical support told me:

" The kludge that is mentioned on some newsgroups to change the 'book type' of a disc is something that only works on Ricoh drive mechanisms and isn't required on home dvd players that actually meet the specs for recordable media. Plextor doesn't use Ricoh mechanisms. The best solution would be to have your dvd player updated to properly support recordable media if it doesn't now." .....Plextor

This is BS from Plextor
Bitsetting is FIRMWARE dependent, it has nothing to do with mechanisms.

[davidsin62]

I have the DMR-80H and have recently (from this forum) found the CompUSA disc by FMI to be the most stable (100% no coasters) blank DVD-R and it plays on Sony and Panasonic DVD players I have. My question is related to the generic cheaper silver DVD-R sold at CompUSA that is also made by FMI.....is it the same disc without CompUSA's logo????? Has anyone tried it for a comparison?

Thanks!!!!!

Dave
davidsin62@comcast.net