whether this old player will play any other DVD's.
Back in the day, when DVD burners were a novelty, Mac and Windows commonly used two different formats. DVD-R and DVD+R.
DVD players, at the time, did one or the other.
This is no longer true. Almost all DVD players and burners are capable of reading and writing both formats without a problem.
iDVD will burn to whatever disk you put in the DVD writer. -R or +R, it makes no difference to it.
I would put your problem down to old age, especially considering that the disk can be read in both of your computers.
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I own what some might call an old DVD player (Cyberhome CH-DVD 500). It says "Bad disk" when I insert DVD-R just burnt from my MAC via iDVD. The same disk plays fine on my PC and my MAC so I figure the issue lies on the DVD player. What puzzles me is that some say online that there is no pb in reading DVD-R via this DVD player. So is it common that DVD burnt from iDVD might create this problem or is it just that my DVD player is too old and not entireley compatible with DVD-R?

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