Who to trust?

[Neochronowars]

I just want to know why my DVD manual says I cannot play DVD-Rs on that player but this site says that that DVD player can play DVD-Rs?
Who should I trust? Will playing a DVD-R in this situation somehow damage my DVD player?

[freestyler]

I don't see how it would damage your player. Test it - if it plays it plays, regardless of what you read. My player's manual makes no mention of dvd+r but plays it...

[Poppa_Meth]

What any given player will play is largely up to how the disc is encoded, authored and burned. I've seen countless players that have no support for recordable DVD but all played them just fine regardless. It won't hurt the player in any way.

[Hawseman]

Roger that....

Players that don't fully support dvd recordable, or just haven't tested them will say that just to cover their azzez. I have 2 players that work fine (one pre-recordable era, other not supported). They just tend to be a little more finicky with media....only 1st class (and some 2nd class) works for me (www.nomorecoasters.com).

[Supreme2k]

[indolikaa]

It won't hurt your player.

[BJ_M]

i have a panasonic which says it does not support or play svcd's but it plays them just fine ..

[Gil T Pleasure]

Michael Jackson says he doesn't "play" with boys, but we all know that he does.

[lordsmurf]

None of my players mentions any media (except Toshiba was made for DVD-R) ... most of them play most discs fine. Only cheapo discs and some +R discs give any grief. Some -RW won't play either.

[guns1inger]

My player is so old it pre-dates recordable media (Pioneer 414). It plays (so far) CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+R. It only says it supports VCD and DVD, and it will not play SVCD, however it will play some non-standard (read SVCD conversion) format DVDs.

Bottom line - they only print in the manual what they feel comfortably able to guarantee. The only way to know for sure is to try it out for yourself.

[goirish!!]

I've often wondered this as well. I once had a DVD that did not finish the burn phase (did not reach 100% in Nero) that I put into my daughters DVD player. I believe that this was a Samsung DVD/VHS combo player. Once the DVD reached the point that there was no more data on the disk it locked up. I finally got it to spit out the disk but from there on it would no longer play any of my backup DVD nor would it play factory DVD. Luckily Sam's has a good return policy. Since then I have gone through two more players. One just quit playing DVDs and the other would play DVD but the transport motor kept running constantly.

Since this player is for my daughter she only gets backup DVDs to go in it. It is up high enough that she can not load it so I know that it is not from an errant PB&J load. So far she has had a Toshiba, Samsumg, Emerson, and at this time a Hitachi. My Sony has never given me a min problem. May be just very unlucky in this room but I'm beginning to wonder.

[petar]

Michael Jackson says he doesn't "play" with boys, but we all know that he does.

Excellent

[glockjs]

i trust my mama, thats about it... as far as dvd players who knows, those jickey bastards will tell you anything for you to buy their product.... i've had prob's playin dvd-r on a player that said it read that, vice versa... good dvd-r read when the cheap stuff didnt... bottom line, dont be cheap. buy good media, almost better than headache medicine when it comes to this stuff.