I agree with Cari completely. As a test you can take the DVD+R's you created
down to the electronics store with you and try them in some of their display
DVD players and they will likely play in some but not in others.
-Wojo

"Cari (MS-MVP)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote in message
news:Oy55hjK4FHA.3036@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> You can check at www.videohelp.com to find out exactly what your
> standalone player is supposed to accept.... and what others have reported
> about it.
>
> If the brand of media you are using is a good quality (and not the
> cheapies), I would probably think about replacing both the DVD burner and
> the player..... strangely enough, the cheaper the standalone player, the
> more varieties of DVD it seems to accept and it's easier to 'hack' to make
> region free and concert PAL to NTSC and vice versa.
>
> Newer burners do the dual layer format as well.... and at today's prices,
> well worth the ten minutes to swap out!
>
> I have a Pioneer A08 which has never had problems... and my old A06 still
> works fine in hubby's PC....
>
> As for players we have 4.... two pricier ones (Toshiba and JVC)... and two
> Phillips cheapies, hacked to be region free and play DVDs from the UK
> because they happily convert PAL to NTSC.... the two pricey ones have
> balked at several burned disks, the Phillips' have accepted everything
> I've thrown at them.
>
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Printing & Imaging
>
>
>
> "Fred Saunders" <freds@commspeed.net> wrote in message
> news:1130971625.202890@news.commspeed.net...
>> The brand of dvd blanks varies. My burner is an 8x unit and I have been
>> burning at 2x or 4x.
>>
>> Is this a media problem, or and old hardware problem?
>>
>>
>> "Cari (MS-MVP)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23qb1Ae%233FHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> Are the disks all the same brand? Quality can vary tremendously....
>>> also try burning a a speed lower than you can... if your burner is a
>>> 16x, try burning at 12x.
>>> --
>>> Cari (MS-MVP)
>>> Printing & Imaging
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Fred Saunders" <freds@commspeed.net> wrote in message
>>> news:1130958644.892167@news.commspeed.net...
>>>>I have made completed several projects with Moviemaker and Photostory.
>>>>When using the .wmv files and Roxio Easy Media creator 7.5 I am having
>>>>numerous problems. When writing to dvd-r's I have some success but a
>>>>lot of pauses and skips. When writing to dvd +rw's I appear to have
>>>>total success. All of the dvd+rws play on my home dvd player. When
>>>>writing to dvd+r's, I have had no success.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All of the DVD's I have created work fine on my computer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My dvd burner is at least 3 years old and my home dvd player is 4 years
>>>> old.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any suggestions. My desire is to burn dvd's that will
>>>> play on my home DVD player.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Fred Saunders
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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