Page 1 of SAMSUNG 1600 - HOME RECORDED DISCS WON`T PLAY

I have just discovered that most of my DVD collection will not play on the Samsung 1600/1620 These are discs (DVD+R/DVD+RW/DVD-R) that have been recorded on several home recorders over the years....PHILIPS/LITEON/SONY. After loading a disc, with recordings made on a Philips home DVD recorder, the Samsung cannot open the menu properly. The thumbnails show but no lettering. Then the player freezes and no functions will work until you get the offending disc out!
With recordings made on the Liteon recorder, the thumbnails + lettering are there OK on the menu, but the discs still won`t play. The Samsung doesn`t freeze though!!
With the SONY recordings, the menu can be read and the disc plays fine.
I suppose on my RW Philips & Liteon recordings I could replace the menu with one from the Sony recorder by recording just a few seconds of blank on the Sony. BUT, the Sony records PAL only and many of my discs, with now offending menus, are NTSC!!!
What am I to do? Please help someone..........

This item was edited on Monday, 18th January 2010, 15:32

It may be just a dirty laser. Have you tried a cleaning disc with tufty bits on it?

This item was edited on Saturday, 30th January 2010, 12:00

only a thought but if you could reburn these discs and remove the start menu and titles, I recon this would do the trick ,i had similar probs with loading and this is how i solved it. hope this helps .

Thanks for your input...but this has happened on two different 1600`s.....so I think it must be an incompatability problem.........I have a standard Samsung DVD player & it plays the Philips recorded discs fine...........

yes...reburning the discs seems to be the way to go.......or adding a few secs additional video on a different recorder, on those discs that are RW....thereby changing the menu......BUT I have hundreds of +R recorded discs to completely reburn!!!!!!! What to do........thanks for your suggestion.......