Help with my Nec 1300a dual writter

[techrulz]

I have just purchased a Nec 1300a dual writter. When I make a +R dvd my 2 home dvd players with not see the dvd. This is not a simple one to figure because I know that both of my DVD players will read both + and -. I know this because my first dvd writter was a HP 200E that would only write +R and these worked fine. My 2nd writter was a Sony dual format. this wrote both + and -, but for some reason the +R would not work but the -R would. I returned this one because I thought that the Sony was just not writting the +R correctly. My 3rd was a NEC 1100a which only writes +R. This one would fine and both DVD players could read it. A friend made an offer so I sold it. Now I have the NEC 1300a dual writter and the +R are now showing in my 2 dvd players. This stricks me as odd due to the fact that the last 2 writters I had were NEC and the +R only worked fine but the +R on the dual format did not.
The media on all 4 are the same. I purchased from Best Buy a 100 pack of the TDK 4X dvd+Rs.
Can anyone help???????

[Bob W]

Did you put all the DVD files into a "VIDEO_TS" folder then burn that folder? Did you finalize the DVDR? Not doing anyone of these will make the DVDR usless in most stand alone DVD playeras.

[-jsl-]

The problem is the bitsetting/book type. The HP and NEC ND-1100 write DVD+R as DVD-ROM book type which give a somewhat better compatibility than the standard DVD+R book type the Sony and NEC ND-1300 use, especially with DVD players from manufacturers that "dislike" the + format (eg. Panasonic, Toshiba).

There is no dual format DVD writer available now that can burn DVD+R as DVD-ROM book type.

[Dubber]

I somewhat disagree with:

The problem is the bitsetting/book type. The HP and NEC ND-1100 write DVD+R as DVD-ROM book type which give a somewhat better compatibility than the standard DVD+R book type the Sony and NEC ND-1300 use, especially with DVD players from manufacturers that "dislike" the + format (eg. Panasonic, Toshiba).

as I got NEC 1300A and +RW disks I burned WORK FINE on my Panasonic RV-32. I used Nero Express 5.5.10.xx the drive came with and then updated it to 5.5.10.50 and it still works fine. I didn't change default config/settings in Nero.

[-jsl-]

Not all Panasonic models have problems with playing DVD+R/RW but the general compatibility with DVD+R/RW (with DVD+R/RW book type) and Panasonic DVD players are worse than with most other brands and I don't think it's a coincidence...