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Alan Mills · #2 (**permalink**) 01-12-2006, 12:55 PM

Sadly, the industry is not quite at the stage where all players will play all brands of disks.

Historicall, this has been the case with just about every media type I know. Back in the early to mid 80's it was not guaranteed that a 3.5 in floppy, written on one PC could actually be read on a different computer. Same thing here I expect.

But more so a case of your DVD player is not able to play the particular brand of DVD-R you have. 1-4x or 1-8x times should make no difference I think. It's more likely the brand that's the issue. Check the manufacturuer's web site and look for a list of compatible DVD-R brands for your player.

Also, anothe rbig issue that stops DVD-R playing on players is putting a sticky label on the disk. Advice based on my personal experience is to NEVER do this. If you want a nice label for the disk then buy printable DVD-R and print onto the disk using a suitable printer. NEVER EVER put a sticky label on a DVD-R.