DVD Player not playing

[Gordon B. Alley]

I've got a 2002-vintage iMac G4 that will only burn at 1X speed.

I've had pretty good luck with CompUSA's house brand 1X DVD-Rs. They 
can usually be purchased for $1 per disc. But you have to check all 
the package sizes. Sometimes the 10-packs are more expensive per disc 
than the 1- or 2-packs.

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:47:35 -0500, Kochkodin <kochkodin at verizon.net> wrote:
>You are correct Sir!!! (as Ed McMahon used to say to the Great
>Karnac)!!!   Using an imac SE 400 and/or Pismo 400 w/a LaCie DVD
>burner...+R burns will not play in either of these systems, but will
>play in any other systems  (An Apex desktop, a Phillips desktop
>player/burner and a Polaroid compact 7" player)...The +R's are ejected
>from both computers..Along w/+RW's, they will mount in the LaCie but
>will not run at all....I got a pack of -R's yesterday to try and they
>will work in the computers....The drawback that I have found is that the
>-R's are only 1X vs the 2x of the  +R's...The DVD's are all
>Verbatim's...No coasters after burning a bunch succssfully...Sam's club
>sells the +R's for about $1.50 each and the -R's for about $1.90.... I
>think WalMart's price for 3 -R's is about $10.00
>Regards,
>Mike K
>
>Mark M. Florida wrote:
>>  My hunch is that the problem is caused by the disc media -- is it a DV+R
>>  ("PLUS R") disc, by chance?  You should be able to tell either by the
>>  printing on the top of the disc (pretty obvious), or if that's covered
>>  up with a label or printing, then check the tiny type around the center
>>  ring of the disc.  If it *is* a +R disc, try copying the VIDEO_TS folder
>>  to the desktop, then point DVD Player there for playback.  Then, if you
>>  want, after doing that, you can re-burn it to a DVD-R ("DASH R")...
>>
>>  I just found this hint on macosxhints.com:
>>
>>  http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031228200948977
>

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