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DVD burning for home theater player ... Help !

Dec 20, 2004 2:35AM PST

I have been trying to tranfer some movies and video clips to DVD from my computer to view on my TV .... I have Roxio 6 for software .... In all attempts so far , I can not get anything to play on my home theater DVD player .... I have tried DVD+R and DVD-R ... What am I doing wrong ... I can view the list of files on the disc from the HT dvd player , but NO Play ... Sad

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DVD burning
Dec 21, 2004 11:58PM PST

I have burned over 50 DVD slide shows and movies.
So far they seem to work on just about anything.
I have used + and - DVD media.

I ran across one piece of software (DVD X Copy) that would not work on a Toshiba or Sony DVD set-top player. I downloaded an update and then it worked OK.

You first need to know if the DVD media is the problem or your player is the problem.

Try the DVD on a computer DVD reader.
Try the DVD on a friends set-top DVD player.

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DVD burning
Dec 30, 2004 12:10AM PST

How old is you DVD player? The older ones don'r alwise work with PC brned DVDs. John