DVD-RAM drives, what can they read??

[egspeedle]

Hello, I have a Panasonic DVD Recorder (standalone TV one) and it uses DVD-RAM discs, I've been recording things onto them but I'm - obviously - unable to play the discs on any standard DVD player. So, I've been looking into DVD-Writers for my computer but if I got a DVD-Writer that could read DVD-RAM discs, would it be able to copy them seeing as the Panasonic Recorder doesn't have a "Finalize" or "Make Compatible" feature?? I don't want to spend the money only to find it doesn't work!

Thanks in advance

[Captain Satellite]

ANY recent Panasonic DVD player will play DVD-RAM. If you buy TMPGEnc DVD Author, you can easily make DVDs with the RAM disc on your computer RAM drive.

[handyguy]

I have a Panasonic dvd writer lf-d521, its reads that & writes to dvd-r too...

[Synergy]

So, I've been looking into DVD-Writers for my computer but if I got a DVD-Writer that could read DVD-RAM discs, would it be able to copy them seeing as the Panasonic Recorder doesn't have a "Finalize" or "Make Compatible" feature?? I don't want to spend the money only to find it doesn't work!

Apparently what you want to do is to convert DVD-RAM recordings to DVD-R for playback compatibility. It actually involves quite a few steps since you are going to convert VR mode discs to Video mode discs, but everything you need to know is summarized in the following link, including hardware and software required:

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101191

Your DVD-RAM discs are recorded in UDF Ver 2.01, and you need to make sure your computer is installed with a UDF reader or using either WinXP Pro or Win2003, otherwise your computer cannot read the content of the disc.