Playback problem from toast burned dvd on LCD TV

[fyyzer]

I've learned an incredible amount from this forum and I'm hoping someone can help me figure out this oddity.

I just bought an Olevia 32" LCD for my folks and installed it yesterday. I hooked up their Toshiba 5 disc DVD player and thought everything was fine until I popped in on my DVD's I'd burned for them.

The screen was showing the full frame of the show I'd burned and then right next to it it showed another copy of the same frames but cut off vertically about half way across. It was almost as if the screen were wide enough it would have shown two full copies of the picture side by side. On the "extra" half screen copy I can see a flickering green bar at the bottom of the screen which I assume is some type of overscanning or something. Thinking it was a setting in the TV or DVD player I popped in a retail DVD and of course, to my dismay, it played fine.

So here's how I made the DVD:

• Recorded Everest Beyond the Limit from Discovery channel on my Tivo.
  Launching Windows XP via Parallels on my MacBook Pro I copied the .tivo file to my computer.
  I used VideoRedo to strip out the commercials and save it as a .vob so that Toast could burn it without re-encoding.
  Using Toast I burned the .vob file to DVD.

This technique has worked well for me on many occasions and worked in many different dvd players including my folks other DVD/LCD TV.

I'm at a loss as to why this particular combination of the Toshiba DVD and Olevia LCD TV is having trouble playing it back. I will probably try burning a few more DVD's with some different software to see if that will help me narrow down the problem. Anybody got any thoughts as to what might be happening?

[Frobozz]

My first guess is that the Toshiba player is having problems with the brand of DVD media you used. Or maybe there is an issue with how the DVD player is set up for play back to the TV. But if the DVD works properly with other devices then it is unlikely that anything is wrong with the software you used to create the DVD.

[fyyzer]

I pondered that it could be the media. I'll try some different media and see what happens. Thanks