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I've got a quick dvd player question: why is it that homegrown dvds that play on my machine won't play on my friend's? And vice-versa? Is there anything that can be done about this?
(I say quick, because I'm guessing that the answer is no. It usually is.)
Could it be a DVD-R+ versus a DVD-R- incompatibility? Some older players can only read one or the other. Same thing for some older burners.
It's not the plus/minus thing -- I tried a plus and a minus dvd and neither worked.
However, other homegrown dvds do -- it's all very odd.
I googled and found a list of disks that will/won't play on my machine. . . hmmmm
You can schedule tv shows from Yahoo TV listings on your Tivo.
I just heard something about that on NPR this morning. Cool.
So, the particular brand of dvd-r won't play on my machine -- does this mean that if I found somebody to copy the dvds to a brand that does - that it would work?
That seems a little too simple.
More likely is that the discs weren't properly finalized -- non-finalized DVDs will sometimes play on the machine that created them, but no others.
Well, the machine that played them over the weekend was not the machine that created them.