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Heath McKnight · August 22nd, 2003, 01:28 AM

I burned some DVDs for a friend on my EZ Quest burner (via my Mac and Charismac software); I tested it on both an old and new DVD player and it passed with flying colors! Even my tricky 1st generation TiBook played it (it hates DVDs for some reason). The friend says her (cheap, really it is cheap) 8 month old DVD player and bro-in-law's new PC laptop are getting disc error messages.

Any ideas? It played like a champ in my tests where DVDs can have problems in the machines. Economically, what should I do? It's not my problem if their systems are cheap....

heath

Rob Lohman · September 9th, 2003, 08:15 AM

That's the problem with the DVD market at this moment Heath.
It doesn't seem to matter whether you have a cheap or expensive
set. Some discs just don't play in some players. Or some burners
might even burn a disc that one player doesn't like but does like
when burned with another burner....

If you really want to be sure have your discs pressed.

Heath McKnight · September 9th, 2003, 01:00 PM

How pricey is it to have discs pressed?

heath

Rob Lohman · September 9th, 2003, 01:18 PM

That depends on the amount of discs you need to press and
where you get it done. I'm not in your part of the world, so
I don't know any DVD pressing companies there. But I can't
imagine they would be very hard to find.

They don't press a single or a couple of discs I think though.

Heath McKnight · September 9th, 2003, 01:28 PM

<<<-- Originally posted by Rob Lohman : That depends on the amount of discs you need to press and
where you get it done. I'm not in your part of the world, so
I don't know any DVD pressing companies there. But I can't
imagine they would be very hard to find.

They don't press a single or a couple of discs I think though. -->>>

Yeah, I don't know how many people will buy a copy of my film on DVD.

BTW, what happened with the DVD-R not playing was that the people's DVD player (all models of Mintek) was made to NOT play DVD-Rs...

heath

August 22nd, 2003, 01:28 AM	#1
Heath McKnight MPS Digital Studios Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Palm Beach County, Florida Posts: 8,531	weird I burned some DVDs for a friend on my EZ Quest burner (via my Mac and Charismac software); I tested it on both an old and new DVD player and it passed with flying colors! Even my tricky 1st generation TiBook played it (it hates DVDs for some reason). The friend says her (cheap, really it is cheap) 8 month old DVD player and bro-in-law's new PC laptop are getting disc error messages. Any ideas? It played like a champ in my tests where DVDs can have problems in the machines. Economically, what should I do? It's not my problem if their systems are cheap.... heath __________________ My Final Cut Pro X blog

September 9th, 2003, 08:15 AM	#2
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	That's the problem with the DVD market at this moment Heath. It doesn't seem to matter whether you have a cheap or expensive set. Some discs just don't play in some players. Or some burners might even burn a disc that one player doesn't like but does like when burned with another burner.... If you really want to be sure have your discs pressed. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

September 9th, 2003, 01:00 PM	#3
Heath McKnight MPS Digital Studios Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Palm Beach County, Florida Posts: 8,531	How pricey is it to have discs pressed? heath __________________ My Final Cut Pro X blog

September 9th, 2003, 01:18 PM	#4
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	That depends on the amount of discs you need to press and where you get it done. I'm not in your part of the world, so I don't know any DVD pressing companies there. But I can't imagine they would be very hard to find. They don't press a single or a couple of discs I think though. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

September 9th, 2003, 01:28 PM	#5
Heath McKnight MPS Digital Studios Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Palm Beach County, Florida Posts: 8,531	<<<-- Originally posted by Rob Lohman : That depends on the amount of discs you need to press and where you get it done. I'm not in your part of the world, so I don't know any DVD pressing companies there. But I can't imagine they would be very hard to find. They don't press a single or a couple of discs I think though. -->>> Yeah, I don't know how many people will buy a copy of my film on DVD. BTW, what happened with the DVD-R not playing was that the people's DVD player (all models of Mintek) was made to NOT play DVD-Rs... heath __________________ My Final Cut Pro X blog