DVD+R Finalizing?

[ndhl56]

Yo,
Just got a Pioneer A06 +/- Drive. Works great so far with the -R/-RW media, but everytime I backup a movie with my +R media, the drive won't recognize it after the burn, and neither will my standalone. The drive reads it as a blank.
I think I know what the problem is: The programs I am using (DVDXCOPY Xpress and Clone DVD) aren't finalizing the DVD+Rs, but they auto finalize the DVD-R media. I read that R- media HAS to be finalized while +R doesn't and thought this might be the problem. So now, two questions:
1) Does the above theory sound correct? If I use a program like NERO and manually finalize the DVD+R media, should that close the disc and make the movie readable?
2) Is it possibile to finalize a disc outside of the program it was created in? I have three DVD+Rs with movies on them (they burned fine) but the discs were not (I believe) finalized. Can I "save" them, or are they coasters? Thanks for the help,

ndhl56

[tompika]

Write-once medias have to be finalized to be able to play'em.
Every program should finalize DVD-Videos

Dont use DVDxCopy or CloneDVD to burn.

Don't use $.70 DVD+R medias

[proxyx99]

Use Nero and check the disk content (disc info). If in fact sessions are not finalized, do that. Don't need to finalize disc, just a session. Your PC shoud play it then no problem. As to standalone, check if session finalize will do, if so do just that, if not, finalize the disc.

[tompika]

Decrypter does it too...


A burning program ought to finalize DVD-Video.
Something seriously incompatible here.

[kabanero]

Something seriously incompatible here.

Probably Pioneer

[proxyx99]

Your drive won't do anything beyond what it's told to do. Software is the key here. Use a different program and see how it handles it.

[qpskfec]

+RW discs do not need to be finalized to play on a dvd player. +R do.

[ndhl56]

Yo,
Thanks all. I use NERO now, and everything is top notch.

-ndhl56