Thanks much.  I'll try that.  The set top burner is supposed to finalize the disk but what I think is happening is that I don't stop the recorder before it reaches the end of the disk and just stops itself.  ;-)

Steve

On 3/4/06, Greg Sevart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Yes, it can be done after the fact. You can close the disc with a DVD
burning program (Nero) and a DVDR drive, or your set-top box probably has
some option to do it.

Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Tomporowski
To: The Hardware List
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [H] DVD Formats


Hmm, is there a way to either read an unclosed disk or close it after the
fact?

Steve


On 3/4/06, FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
disk not closed most likely, my mom had the same problem with a go video
unit.

At 05:58 PM 3/4/2006, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with:

>My guess would be that it is either using packet writing (unlikely), or the
>disc isn't closed.
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Tomporowski
>To: The Hardware List
>Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 6:53 PM
>Subject: [H] DVD Formats
>
>
>I'm just starting to look into this, but maybe someone here knows the
>answer already.  I have a set-top DVD Burner, a Samsung DVD-R120.  Got it
>for only 80 bucks and used it hooked up to a VCR to copy over tapes.  Does
>a pretty good job.  However, I recently slapped it into my computer
>(actually both computers) and neither sees the disk at all.  Doesn't play
>and won't show up any file listing (MCE just hangs).  Do set-top DVD
>recorders use some sort of different format?  I'm using the same disks for
>all my DVD burners (-R).
>
>Thanks....Steve

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