Sometimes a DVD disc won’t play in your DVD player. This is usually because the DVD disc is burned, instead of stamped. A burned disc is made in small quantities, one at a time. A stamped disc is usually replicated with a minimum order of 1000. Hollywood movies are stamped (replicated). Personal, or small quantity productions are burned (duplicated). It’s rare; but once in a while, duplicated discs can be incompatible with your player. If this happens, don’t throw out the disc – try a new player.
Here is some information Maverick Productions, LLC usually includes with discs we create:
- We create DVD’s for our customers using the DVD-R (recordable) format. DVD-R is not the same as DVD used by the motion picture industry for rental or purchased movies.
- Store purchased or movie rental DVDs are “pressed discs” that are stamped recordings made in massive quantities by specialized machines designed for (and only for) the motion picture industry. These discs contain layers of information that can accommodate several hours of programming.
- DVD-R (recordable) discs are the current industry standard for commercial and consumer DVD creation, and it is the most widely used and accepted format. However, not all DVD players will play DVD-R discs.
- DVD players made before the year 2000 and/or players tat are inexpensive off-brand department store models may not have included the new software or firmware to play the new recordable DVD-R discs.
- Examples of some (but not all) poor performing DVD players would include several models with names like:
- Go-Video
- Daewoo
- Certain models of Magnavox
- Certain models of Toshiba
- Certain models of other brand names
- Examples of some (but not all) better quality DVD player brand names would include:
- Sony
- Pioneer
- Phillips
- Panasonic
- Mitsubishi
- JVC
- Hitachi
- As well as computers and lap-tops with DVD drives and Sony Play Station 2 also work well with DVD-R
- Some (but not all) combination units do not play DVD-Rs either:
- TV/DVD units
- DVD/VHS dual units
- Etc.
- When looking through your owners manual, or shopping for a DVD player, check to see what other types of media will play in the DVD player. Better models will easily play DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD Music, MP3 Music, VCDs, some CD-Rs, JPEGs, and Kodak Photo CDs. Models that play more than just rental or purchased movies are better equipped to play our DVD-Rs. If you are not sure of your DVD player, you can also look up your make and model number at this web site and it will let you know if your unit is compatible: www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php.
