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| 1254019 | 2012-01-14 04:15:00 | We recently received a DVD from friends in England. It had been recorded from ITV3, and will not play on our Pioneer HDD DVD recorder/writer. It will however play on our more recent Samsung DVD/VCR. The Pioneer gives a "cannot play this disk" error message. I wondered if it had not been finalised, and I tried to do this on the Samsung to no avail. I also tried to copy it on the computer, using Nero StartSmart essentials version 8 which I think came with the computer DVD reader/writer, but it reports an error after reading about half the disk, which is about all that is used. Can anyone help? Brucem |
Brucem (8688) | ||
| 1254020 | 2012-01-14 18:08:00 | The UK uses a different format to us.You may need to reset yr player to play it. The Samsung may make the change automatically |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 1254021 | 2012-01-14 19:05:00 | It is probably the region code the used by the recording machine | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1254022 | 2012-01-14 19:21:00 | For more info,check here en.wikipedia.org | kjaada (253) | ||
| 1254023 | 2012-01-14 21:31:00 | Personally, I'd say it's simply a read or data format issue, if it's getting through half the disc before striking problems. I trust it's not a double layer disc (>4.4GB). Proprietary DVD players can have varying capabilities regarding various pre-installed codecs and disc format handling routines. Big name brands do NOT guarantee a trouble-free playing. My old Panasonic was brutal with regard to discs having to be authored to the correct standards, with a fairly bland set of codecs, but was good at making a clean read of a disc. The cheapie Transonic would playback anything in any format (bet they weren't paying any royalites to the owners of the various codecs), but had such a lousy laser that it would struggle to read a burnt disc cleanly. -Couldn't win either way - both machines are trash now. Also may come down to something as bland as whether the media and playback devices are better suited to + or - DVD media. - is supposed to be a little more video friendly. + is supposed to be better at recovering from read errors. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1254024 | 2012-01-15 00:44:00 | I suppose it is authored as a DVD not just a file copy to the disk?? | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1254025 | 2012-01-15 03:08:00 | Isobuster can do a good recovery job. http://www.isobuster.com/ | Renegade (16270) | ||
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