Re: DVD Recorder

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 17:07:22 -0700 (PDT), GrtArtiste wrote:

> I was given one as a gift... a JVC model DR-MV150B. It recorded a
> football game and then played it on the TV, but I was hoping it would
> play on the computer (Dell Inspiron 530 running Vista Home Premium
> SP2) as well. The computer not only won't play it...it does not even
> read the disc. The drive is working...it plays another DVD just fine.
> Is it unreasonable to hope that this would work? The disc I used is a
> DVD +R, which I have used for other purposes on this machine and those
> have worked okay. Any info appreciated.
>
>
> GrtArtiste

Did you finalize the disk?

That has to be done on the recorder that created the disk.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:56:55 -0700 (PDT), GrtArtiste wrote:

> On Oct 4, 7:09*pm, "Gene E. Bloch" <not...@other.invalid> wrote:
>
>>
>> Did you finalize the disk?
>>
>> That has to be done on the recorder that created the disk.
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>
> I used up the max recording time available on the disc...so I guessed
> that it would finalize by itself. Nothing in the programming suggested
> that I needed to finalize the disc. I'll have to re-read the
> instructions to make sure I didn't miss something. Since it played on
> the TV, I thought it would play on the computer too. Maybe I was
> mistaken.
>
> GrtArtiste

You didn't play it on the TV, you played it on the recorder you used to
create it, which was connected to the TV.

Any DVD recorder will play an unfinalized disc of its own. No device
will play an unfinalized DVD from another brand of machine. You can't
even be 100% sure that it will work on another model of the same brand.
Actually, I suspect that it must be on the same box that it was made on,
because I suspect that it uses data that it keeps in its internal memory
about each individual DVD. To be clear: I don't *know* this, I *suspect*
it.

You have to find out how to finalize the DVD if you want to play it on
another machine. I never heard of a recorder that finalizes DVDs
automatically, but I don't claim complete knowledge :-)

All the above is true of CDs as well.

One exception is DVD+RW, at least on some machines. DVD+RW doesn't
require finalizing on my cheap old machine, according to the manual.

A similar exception is DVD-RAM. Of course, not every deck plays DVD-RAM.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)