[MacDV] Re: DVD Player not playing

[Kochkodin]

The +Rs will not mount in the Pismo or the iMac SE but if you put them 
in in the Lacie D2 +/- burner they mount but DVD Player won't work with 
them. Even if you start DVD Player and then go to open to select a 
VIDEO_TS folder they won't work. I get an error code. I can understand 
if + discs will not work in the stock drives as they were probably made 
before consumer DVD burners existed. I'm pretty sure of that but to not 
work when being used with the Lacie does not make sense. I think b/c 
Apple has gone with the - standard they have made it so DVD Player will 
not play + discs. But it gets more confusing when I put a DVD+RW into 
the Lacie it mounts AND DVD Player works with the video just like any 
other disc but the same video burned to a +R will just error out...I'm 
using Verbatim - discs and the + are Verbatim and Philips. Both brands 
work great. I do not think this is a faulty media issue but rather a 
Apple coding one. I use Toast 6 to burn the discs. When using - media I 
get discs that work in the Macs but these discs I grabbed (didn't take 
notice) are only 1x. My +s are 2x and work great burned at that speed 
but I doubt these Macs would be fast enough to support burning at 4x so 
I'll keep at 2x even when I re-stock with 4x that are replacing 2x on 
the market.

Does anyone know what the basic differences between the two types of 
discs are? Is one more reliable or longer-lived?

Jeff

> 
> The +R's are ejcted from the computers after it tries to read 
> them...same thing w/+RW's..The LaCie will recognize & and mount the +R's 
> but they won't do anything...I think that's what's going on...My son is 
> the techie in this matter...
> Regards,
> Mike
>