The_Urinator(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Friday, 12th August 2005, 15:04
Has anyone came up with a fix for the Philips DVDR family of DVD recorders to play DVD+R DL disks?
I burnt films onto Reitek DVD+R DL disks and then onto very expensive Verbarum DVD+R DL disks and found the following:
Philips DVDR 70/ 75 and 77 machines will play none of them. Just reports a disk error.
Cheap Black Diamond, 100 quid Philips player, 3 year old Panasonic player will play DL disk perfectly.
So why can`t the Philips DVDR family. (Already updated to the latest version of s/w: 6.3).
I wrote to and also rang the Philips technical helpline asking if this is a software or hardware issue. And if it is software, would they be releasing a new s/w to fix it.
They hadn`t got a clue what I was talking about. "Most retail disks are DL and can be played" is all they said over and over. And they when I asked if they had anybody that was actually technical, they said that they could not follow up any further on my inquiry !! $%^&* !!
After paying quite a bit of money on the recorder I though that it would at least play all formats of disks...........
