My Sony player (mine is circa 4/99) fails to read DVD-R (gives a C:13:00 error) or DVD-RW ("CAN NOT PLAY THIS DISC" error). Pretty disappointing given that this site shows it compatible with DVD-R. Only hope now is DVD+R/+RW which isn't readily available anywhere, especially +R. Might be the age of my version of the Sony, and there is no practical way of getting a firmware upgrade if this was necessary. Looks like the future for my Sony, in a recordable world, is in the trash can.

Has anyone else had similar problems? Has anyone tried DVD+R yet?