Problem Reading DVD-R

[PTP400]

I burnt several DVD-Rs (Datawrite red media) on my old pioneer 103 DVD writer. After burning, I verified they were readable by copying back to hard disk using a pioneer 106 slot loading player.

I have since got rid of my original equipment but I now find that reading the disks on my new equipment (NEC1300a writer and generic DVD player) is very unreliable and sometimes impossible. As read failure is intermittent and at different times on the same disk, I think it may be something to do with the varying abilities of different players to read DVD-Rs.

Can anyone advise me of a reader or writer which is good at reading DVD-Rs and therefore solve my problems?

Thanks

[flaninacupboard]

if burned on a pioneer i would suggest another pioneer will be your best bet. i never got good reliability from datawrite discs

[DVD_Ripper]

I agree that it is more than likely the media. I have noticed that good media has been readable on a multitude of machines. (shared with friends and family and played on many PC's and set tops)

However... same cannot be said for cheap media... (lots of phone calls and reburns on better media)

You may want to try DVDInfoPro to test some of your already burned media.

[tim6661234]

Sounds like media. I've had similar with my 104. I could not read the disks but if I did an ISO copy using my DVD Writer it would read it where as my DVD-ROM would not. Didn't know if it was because the writer had better lazer or because it was the drive that had been used to burn it.