Panasonic DVD recorder....

[Spacedementia87]

We just got one of these. I recorded an old family VHS to DVD using the f.Rec mode set to 3 hours and then set it recording.
The finished disc plays on the panasonic recorder, however will not play on my other player (sony) however this player will play discs made from my computers DVD-writer.

I don't understand why this is. Does Panasonic encode it somehow to not allow other players to read it?

[canadateck]

Did you finalize the Disc/Make compatible?

[Spacedementia87]

to be honest i am not sure.
How would i go about doing that?

[hech54]

Sony's are also notoriously crappy at playing recordable media.....especially the older ones.

[handyguy]

If you get no menu, then its not finalized....

Read the manual, go into the disk setting menu & click on finalize.

[gshelley61]

It sounds like you might have recorded to DVD-RAM. If that's the case, it won't play on any regular DVD player (except for some Panasonic models that have the DVD-RAM playback feature).

Record to DVD-R (or DVD-RW is your unit is one of the newer Panasonic recorders that can do so) in Video format... then finalize the disc. Finalized DVD-R and DVD-RW discs recorded in Video format (not VR format) will play back on nearly any DVD player (except maybe older players from 1999, 2000, etc.)