[G4] Do I need a new DVD Player?

[Steve Goldstein]

The older DVD players, for the most part, do not play recordable DVD  
discs, whether DVD +R, -R, +RW, or -RW.  About a year ago, most of  
the new crop would play the DVD -R, and few would play the DVD +R.   
Today, things may have changed, but you'd still have to read the  
manufacturer's specs to find out if the player will play the kind of  
disc that you want to record.

--Steve

On Jun 9, 2005, at 10:41 AM, Richard M. Kriss wrote:

> Something tells me the old RCA DVD Player we have on top of the RCA  
> Home
> Theater may be old stuff and needs to be replaced as it will not  
> play DVD's
> that play on my G4.
>
> As a test I burned a movie we own to a DVD+RW disc using the  
> PIONEER DVD-RW
> DVR-109 and it plays perfect using the OSX 10.4 DVD Player.app but  
> will NOT
> play via the RCA set top box DVD player. Could the issue be I used  
> a DVD+RW
> rather than a DVD-RW disc?
>
> Any suggestions on what specs are important in the newer TV DVD  
> players? I
> would like to stay with an RCA to be able to run everything from  
> the same
> remote.