DVD Compatibility mystery SOLVED!

randyvild wrote on 1/10/2005, 8:14 PM
I shoot live events at Public schools with Two Sony VX2000 and receive orders from the students parents. Last gig was 75 orders which means 75 different DVD players. Now I burn with Riteck to DVD minus format and make unfortunately at the time one at a time. So 7 DVDs returned for they would not play.

SO THE SOLUTION:
I purchased a Pioneer 7 player DECK and burned 7 DVDS from the master that would not play and WHALLA, poof or whatever the sound was, all 7 DVDs now play.

-Randy

Comments

p@mast3rs wrote on 1/10/2005, 8:20 PM
You should have included a disclaimers with this thread. Just kidding :)

Congrats on getting it all figured out. What burner were you using before that gave you error discs? Or did you get a set top box and copy dvd to dvd from the ones that didnt play?
Trichome wrote on 1/10/2005, 8:22 PM
The gall of those discs that wouldn't play...
;P

randyvild wrote on 1/11/2005, 2:03 AM
The burner I was using from computer is the Sony DVD RW-+ R- DRU-530A.
I have found this burner is best but there are always some old time DVD players that reject the DVDs produced from this burner. This is why you have to take deck tower and burn another DVD from master then you will receive about 95% compatibility effeciency.

-Randy
rvpvideo wrote on 1/11/2005, 4:12 AM
Randy,

Please e-mail me when you have a chance. I have a few questions for you on the school events taping.

Thanks,

Keith
Replay Video Productions

info@rvpvideo.com
rmack350 wrote on 1/11/2005, 7:49 AM
Hi Randy,

Let me get this straight.

1- you burn a master disk
2- you put the master disk in another player
3-you make burns from that disk being read in the player

Have I got it right? So here's the questions:

This is a Pioneer set top dvd player? Not a player/recorder? Could you spell this out a little more? I'm not getting it.

(I've been getting mixed results with my DVD burner and found that if I was never in the room during the burn then things would work out just fine. I'm wondering if my burner is susceptible to shock. Probably. It's a wood floor and the system is on the floor)

Rob Mack
OdieInAz wrote on 1/11/2005, 8:07 AM
Is this what you mean by Pioneer 7?

http://www.supermediastore.com/1-to-7-pioneer-8x-white-dvd-duplicator.html
randyvild wrote on 1/11/2005, 10:10 AM
Yes this iis it Pioneer Duplicator

This is truyly unexplainable to my knowledge and this is why my post has the word "MYSTERY" in the title. I have experienced many different DVD burners through the years and I have come to a conclusion. No matter what you do:

I use DVD-
I use Riteck
I don't use DVD labels
I render to Dolby

Now there will always be DVD players that will not play your media.

Now last night for instance I had two clients that had a DVD I burned for them using my Sony internal drive burner (DVD -) and it was not working for them. So I took that same DVD - then copied it with the Pioneer Tower to DVD - and now both clients have working DVD.

Randy
Vild Productions
SonicClang wrote on 1/11/2005, 12:14 PM
Randy, e-mail me too about taping stuff for the school. I'm very interested in what you're actually doing. I'll take school events over weddings any day of the week and twice on Sundays. :D
OdieInAz wrote on 1/11/2005, 1:23 PM
It sounds like

1) the DVD-ROM drive is better able to read than the client's DVD players, and

2) Pioneer DVD burner makes a disk that is better able to be read by the client's DVD player.

I bet if you used some DVD diagnostic software, you would find difference is the bit error rate
jsteehl wrote on 1/11/2005, 2:06 PM
I've also done one but could use some tips... would make for a good thread on it's own!

-Jason