one player plays while the other fails

[rock122]

Here is the story i have two dvd players a single disc Philips DVD 711 and a 3 disc Apex AD-5131 i bought the apex cuz my philips was crappy at playing svcd and up until today (got a dvd+r burner) it was fine. Now i burned my first backup (fast and furious) and it works on the philips but doesn't work on the apex it just keeps reading (on the box of the apex it says reads DVD-r/rw and DVD+r/rw) i burned it on a DVD+rw cendyne gave with the burner why does it work on the crap player but not the one advertised to play backups???

[snowmoon]

the DVD-RW that came in my box ( DVR104 ) worked like crap... the box of memorex I bought seperate worked fine though.

So I would guess it's the media until you get a chance to test with another disc.

[TBoneit]

I have the Apex AD 5131, Bought last November so it may be different than yours of course...

It plays -R & +R & +RW, I have't tested a -RW on it yet, just fine for me... Even plays PAL as well as NTSC Video through my NTSC TV.

I'm thinking something in the way you authored (Backed-up) the source DVD....

I have noticed that the Apex and the Sony players work a little differently

Example if I put multiple titles on disk with TMPGenc DVD authoring program the chapter skip button works Ok to skip chapters, however the Sony when I hit the last chapter in a title won't go to the next title until the current title is finished and won't go backwards to a previous title. Whereas the Apex I can chapter button to a previous title or to the next title using the chapter skip buttons.

The Apex has more FF speeds, 4 vs 3 on the Sony, But the Sony's FF is faster.

Tradeoffs.


So Good luck and investigate your process

Roger T

[j1mmy420]

I also have an Apex and a sony. The sony does not play vcd or svcd and the apex plays anything just like it says on the box. But when i make a dvd backup on a dvd+r or dvd-r only the sony can play it not the apex.
This is really buggin me

[LawnCowboy]

I have an Apex AD-5131 but it doesn't seem to play DVD+RWs??? I've tried different media - Verbatim and KHypermedia to no avail... I've tried different shinkers with no difference.... I'm using Nero 6 Ultra.... I've tried using the Burning Rom software and also using Recode2.... nada Any ideas? The same movie files work fine on DVD+R... I bought the player Dec. 2002... it doesn't specify on the box that it will play DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW...

[LawnCowboy]

I forgot... do I need to upgrade the firmware to allow DVD+RW play ya think????