Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I'm about to make some DVDs to be played in a DVD player, not computer >> but for TV. I have been using DVD+R and they work fine. I've made >> quite a few of them. My friend bought another spindle of 100 that are >> DVD-R. Note the difference of + and - there. I suspect it will play >> fine but I don't want to open the spindle, burn a few, find out it >> doesn't play and be stuck with DVD discs, at least 90 or so more, that >> are basically of no use. If it won't work, I'd rather him swap them out >> now and get what we know works instead of getting stuck. >> >> I'm using DeVeDe 3.23.0 software to create the DVD and K3b to burn >> them. I think Devede creates a ISO image for K3b to burn if that helps >> any. It's been a while since I made a DVD. >> >> I'm pretty sure they bought their DVD player just a few years ago. Will >> DVD-Rs play the same as DVD+R in modern ones or are they still picky? >> >> Oh, the only DVD player I have is my puter so I'm not going to claim I >> know them things real well. ;-) >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > Hi Dale, > It TOTALLY depends on the DVD player. Different players, different > specs. My input is check the specs. You can burn 1 or 2 and try, but > if the player isn't spec'ed for DVD-R then it might work today but be > flaky tomorrow. > > BTW - I recently moved my wife's laptop off of Gentoo replacing it > with Kubuntu. Only reason I bring it up is I bought a package of DVD+R > to burn some boot DVDs and found her machine (and my mom's which is > the same Asus G73JW model) won't read DVD+R but works fine with DVD-R. > Sadly, I'll be switching my main machine away from Gentoo after now > close to 17 years of using nothing but Gentoo. That's a long run > having started in 2002/2003. My machine has no trouble with either > type. > > Anyway, good luck. > > Mark > >
That's what I was afraid of. I'm going to go up to my friends in a bit, to look at deer pics from our trail cameras, and I'll get the brand and model and do some googling, startpaging for me. I was hoping that modern ones would 'Just Work' but I guess they are still picky. I've been using Gentoo since about that time too. While I'm not opposed to switching to something else, I'm not really wanting to either. ;-) Thanks for the info. Dale :-) :-)
