Burning and Playing BD-R discs

birdcat wrote on 1/19/2011, 10:41 AM

Hi Kids -

I have a problem and was hoping someone may know a solution.

I got a Blu-Ray burner a few months ago but have not tried burning a BD project until recently. I bought a LiteOn BD burner from NewEgg and am using Memorex BD-R discs, which I have successfully burned as data discs. It is this one: http://tinyurl.com/4mr8m2b

I also recently got the Sony BDV-E770W home theater system which claims to be able to play BD-R discs (specs are here:http://tinyurl.com/4jojsfj.

I am running Vegas Pro 8 & DVD Architect 5.0.

When I burn a BD from DVDA I can see the correct files in the correct places on the PC when I look but the BD player rejects the disc as invalid. Same thing if I burn directly from Vegas.

Any clues?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks.

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birdcat wrote on 2/22/2011, 11:12 AM

OK boys & girls - I did it (sort of).

I got some Verbatim BD-RE discs (25GB, 2X) and burned my project to one of them and voila - The E770W played it right away. Gotta say even a older SD 16:9 project looks amazing!

So bottom line is it'll cost me more (the ten pack was around $40 with shipping) but at some point they'll come down in price for the 100 spindle (just paid 12.99 for 100 DVD-R's this past weekend at CompUSA).

Thanks to all for your help - I'll update this if I find any other playable solutions.

Wovian wrote on 2/23/2011, 1:11 AM

Birdcat, well done! Glad to see you got the Sony to play the BD-RE.

This is exactly where I got to (as I said earlier on the thread). At least the BD-RE solution is cheaper than a new system and you completely haven't wasted your money on it!

I spent a lot of time and money trying to see if I was doing something wrong with respect to the BD-R and the guys on the forum really tried to help but it's just the Sony player.