On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 04:16 PM, Ian Tucker wrote: > When you have double clicked the "burn" button in iDVD you will be > asked to insert a DVD-R disc. Do this and then wait for the message > "Preparing ...." to appear. As soon as this message appears, > eject the DVD-R disc and load a DVD-RW disc . The programme will then > proceed to burn the new disc as normal. I have a Pioneer DVD player > attached to the TV and have no problems with it playing DVD-RW discs. Yeah - I do this all the time when I want to see a DVD on the screen before I pronounce it totally "done". No problem with the burning or playing in a Sony player. I usually burn disks overnight so I'm not tempted to dork with the machine while its burning. SR