Friend bought a Gateway desktop recently. It came with a Hitachi DVD burner.
He used the burner along with DVDShrink and Nero to burn a backup of a DVD
video (movie) on a Memorex DVD-R 4x disk. The resulting disk will only play
on DVD burners. Will not play on computer DVD players nor on set top
Panasonic DVD players, only Pioneer. No files found. Then he installed a 106
Pioneer DVD burner in place of the Hitachi and burned the same movie using
another Memorex blank. Product disk plays on everything.

Moral: if Gateway tries to sell you a DVD burner, don't buy it.

--

- GRL

"It's good to want things."

Steve Barr (philosopher, poet, humorist, chemist,
Visual Basic programmer)

The moral is: don't burn +Rs. DVD-Rs have higher compatability with
current, and especially older, DVD players.

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:32:13 -0500, "GRL" <GLitwinski@CHARTERMI.COM>
wrote:

Funny, I was sure it was the other way rounf. DVD+R was designed from the
star to be played on DVD players. DVD-R was not.

MJ


"Robertazimmerman" <bobdylan@iname.com> wrote in message
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"GRL" <GLitwinski@CHARTERMI.COM> wrote in message
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Not true. My husband bought a Gateway a week ago, has the same Hitachi
dvd-burner you mentioned. Plays anything, burns anything I throw at it and
all of them will play on any of my dvd players, stand-alone and PC. I never
use Memorex discs, they suck.

Both camps claim higher compatibility. In older players, -R does seem to do
a little better. Most newer players can handle both.

But for maximum compatibility, some +R burners allow setting the book type
to DVD-ROM, same as a commercial pressed DVD. I can do that with my LiteOns,
and I have yet to find a player that spits them out.

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"Robertazimmerman" <bobdylan@iname.com> wrote in message
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Too bad that's totally untrue. Sounded good, though.

Robertazimmerman <bobdylan@iname.com> wrote in message news:<o1vu00dj5ssghg85gfmdkjqv19mja839tn@4ax.com>. ..
Uh, all of the disks he burned WERE DVD-R's. Actually, the first DVD-R
he burned (from the Hitachi drive) was readable on my NU DDW-081, so
as an experiment, I ripped it to my hard drive from his -R disk, then
burned it to a DVD+R with book type set to DVD-ROM and it then played
on everything, including an old Toshiba DVD player that is extremely
picky about playing any kind of recordable media.

Your statement is, in fact, incorrect. DVD+R's with book type set to
DVD-ROM are, in my experience, the most compatable of all recordable
DVD's. You are right that -R's are better, in that regard, than +R's
set to book type +R.

"lrulan" <lrulan@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<n96dnbj5wdlZZpLd4p2dnA@comcast.com>...
OK, then explain why the same DVD movie burned by the Hitachi and by a
Pioneer 106 (oem A06) to the same Memorex media played fine when
burned by the Pioneer on everything and would not play on anything but
DVD burners and a Pioneer DVD set top player when burned by the
Hitachi burner. I call that a burner problem, not a meda problem.
Further, if you go to DVDRhelp

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdmedia

you'll find that Memorex 4x DVD-R media has pretty good compatability
compared to most media. It most certainly does NOT "suck" as you so
crudely put it. That term may be applicable to the Hitachi drive
Gateway sells, however. I mean come on, its output was not even
recognized as a disk by multiple CD-ROMs! That's bad. Sure wish
Gateway used something cheap and good like NEC drives, at least.