i was wondering why software makes a difference in which dvd-r's will play in home players. i have a toshiba sd3109 and it's going on 5 years old now, so when i bought my dvd writer the information i had read from various sights said that there would be no possible way that my dvd player would read dvd-r. so when i finally got my burner working(thanks to all those that helped) i burned a movie with recordnow software and to my amazement it played, so i tried it again, and again it played, so i tried burning a movie with nero and all i got was a disc error when i put it in my dvd player, but the disc did burn fine because i have lent the movie to a couple of buddies whose dvd players are about a year old and it played. does anybody know why this would be?

Primo DVD does compatibility checks before it burns DVD video, NERO does not, what it actually does i dont know but it certainly works. The new version of NERO has a setting that fills the disk up with blank sectors or something so that it is more compatible. I still use Primo DVD though because it makes the most compatible disk i have ever come accross.

Peace

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