well I'm back to this site now commenting....

I took my burned dvd+rw's that were suppose to work on on my brand new dvd player and switched them to dvd+r ....my new player is supposed to play that also ...well

lo and behold....................the friggen thing WON'T play!!!

LOTR we've been working on this from my other thread....

Seems like a lot of us are getting nowhere here...

All the proper questions were answered....and still we can't get these things to play on tv

I have been seriously thinking of buying a 42"-50" monitor.....run a line from my pc out to where the tv is and the monitor and just play it off of the pc....

it would solve all of these problems...

response to koufax07 post.

Hmmmm might get my head chopped off here
MY OS is WindowsXP MCE and this machine is hooked to my TV plays and sounds great. I do have set top DVD player and have similar problems usually crappy media or when at a friends house the player didn't support the media type.

I was serious about doing that ....but I haven't given up hope yet...
but if you read other threads here people are having the same problems...
there has to be a common link why these wont play...

I borrowed my buddys new dvd and it played immediately on the new dvd for the tv...go figure...

the converted dvd+r didnt play on the tv but now I have a permanent copy for the pc or somewhere else...

I was converting all the dvd+rw's to permanent discs anyway....

btw at staples right now has the 25 pack of dvd+r and dvd-r's for $7.94 instead of $24....so I'm stocking up...

so after I practice on the dvd+rw's and everything is cool...I'm switching them to the dvd+r's for now...

I was reading your responses LOTR...from above and was trying to get this problem solved like Fabion here also...

I read the manuals for each of the 2 dvd player recorders and the pc and made notes of which one will play what and accept each....


each I beleive stated it will only burn the nstc? format and not pal....
but I will double check for the switch on the back....

As far as the formatting...

I will reburn my discs w/the format closed....I left it open because of the dvd+rw's....but also left it open when i reburned the dvd+r's....

anything is possible to solve this problem not only for me ...but for alot of other people....

TY LOTR...

OK LOTR I'm back after working on this for the weekend...

Step 1...I checked both brand new DVDplayer recorders and there is no switch to convert....never heard of pal here...but I will check the remote menu...good idea...

Step 2... I reburned AND closed the dvd's ....onto dvd+r as per the dvd/player (can play these)...instructions...

All movies played very well on the pc as usual....
got the DISC ERROR on the tv again!!!!!

Sooooooooooo...back to square 1.....
I'm hoping between ALL these people having the same problem that if someone finds an answer to KINDLY let eveyone else know....

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one having problems!!! Checked the DVD player ..... again ..... thought if I checked again a 'button' might have magically appeared but alas ........ nada, nowt .....

Haven't got as far as the menu on the remote just yet. Have taken these 'burnt' films to 4 different friends now .... won't play on anybodys DVD player .... so back to the drawing board. Did buy some rewritable disks tho so not losing any sleep over wasting any now ..... burnt another film just in case the other one was dodgy. Guess what ....... 'DISK ERROR' yet again.

Now I know these disks play in the DVD player because I have got a couple, as I probably ranted about before, from someone else who burnt some films ..... it's gotta be something to do with the format but god only knows what.

Keep me posted if anybody susses this mess out eventually ..... I'll probably have been carted off to the loony bin by then with all this malarky but I'm sure I'll get access to a PC to read ur messages somewhere down the line!!!!!