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I`m hoping someone can help me with my problem! I recently bought myself a Samsung DVD-R100E and seemed to be getting along very well with it. It played fine, recorded fine with both RAM and RW disks......that is until i tried playing them in any of my other dvd players!! I finalised the disks like the manual said but for some strange reason they wont play in any of the other 4 dvd players i have!!

I checked the specs on all my dvd players and they all accept DVD-RW but even my dvd drive on my pc wont play it!! I have no idea whether i missed a step or am staring right at the problem and cant see it!!! PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!! :(

Lita

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fine with both RAM and RW disks..
You dont finalise RAM disc and they dont play in many DVD players,dont know if you finalise -RW disc because I have never used them.....Yet.

Hi yeah i was talking about RW disks. The manual says ya have to finalise them in order to play them in any other machine however mine dont seem to want to!!

Lita :)

Have you tried various R/W media? Some are better than others.

You don`t finalise RW disc`s only R`s.

You only finalise a R when you have finished using it for recording, its then locked preventing you from doing any more recordings, but is playable on most if not all players.



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You DO finalise -RW discs in order for them to play in other players.If they are recorded in VIDEO mode they should play in most players.Check you have not recorded them in VR mode which is just as incompatible as RAM.
Unfinalised -RW discs won`t play in the same way that unfinalised -/+R discs won`t either.You can then unfinalise the -RW to reuse it

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You DO finalise -RW discs in order for them to play in other players.

I stand corrected, I have never finalised a +RW disc & they play on everything under the sun.

Shutting up now. :(



I quite like the Helpdesk people in a benevolent (as opposed to malevolent) way as they do some valuable work in preventing us being inundated by every halfwit who can work a phone.

Hi and thanks everybody for answering my plea!! I actually DID record in VR mode but now obviously my question is....why have VR mode if you cant get it to playback? I`m a newbie to all this stuff but i just dont understand the need for a function which renders the dvd useless to any other player!!! :/

Thanks again and i will try recording in V mode and see if the problem disappears!! Fingers crossed!!!

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I actually DID record in VR mode but now obviously my question is....why have VR mode if you cant get it to playback? I`m a newbie to all this stuff but i just dont understand the need for a function which renders the dvd useless to any other player!!!

This is 1 of my ressons for going down the +VR route. There is no different mode`s, and you do not have to finilise them. You can then edit, re-record, erase etc and still play the disk back in any other player.
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Regards, John72.

Rassilon,+RW does not need finalising,-RW does.
The advantage of -RW is that if you do need it to playback on other players you use VIDEO mode.But in VR mode you can edit to your hearts content.VR mode -RW offers all the same fancy editing tricks as RAM and HDD.But the price you pay is incompatibility.Apart from Pioneer players and some dvd recoders -RW(VR) ca be used only in its own recorder.
Unless you want to edit don`t use VR mode.To make full use of -RW(VR) you need a PC rewriter to to copy the edited contents to HDD and then back to a -R disc.
If you have a HDD/DVDR combo,all editing would be done on the HDD anyway.
To use the word "edit" in the same sentence as +RW is slightly misleading.Editing on +RW is limited to "hiding" chapters.Sophisticated HDD style editing is not possible with +RW......but that keeps it simple,which is what Philips had in mind.