Certain brands of players, cheap media

[trekkerj]

I don't have ADVDInfo working with my Panasonic drive. However, I have cheap dvd-r media that I am using. Are certain brands of SA dvd players more accepting of this media? First I thought it was a problem having printed labels on the disc. However, I just burned another disc, no label. I put it in my Toshiba SD-2800, and all seemed fine until about 30 minutes into the disc, when freezing and pixelating occured. I put the same disc into my Sony, and this part of the disc played fine. Is this an indication of the media not being read properly by certain players, or just a problem with the disc? It's hard to tell since the problem is not always 100% recreatable. Samsung also has problems reading the disc. My Sony seems fine, although I have seen problems toward the end of certain discs, but I am hoping this IS due to the labels I have on these discs. Thanks for the the advice.

[padre]

trekkerj

I have found that some SA DVD players don't work with cheap media very well. For example, I owned a JVC DVD player and it hated anything but Pioneer DVD-R's. It wouldn't even play TDK. It would play Verbatum, but not reliably. In my experience, some players, like APEX, will play almost anything you throw in them!

What you are describing (the ability to read the DVD-R in some players but not others reliably) is often jumped on as a fault of 'cheap media', but not always. I'd say if you couldn't read it very well in every DVD player you tried, or it failed around the same area (towards the end), then I'd say bad media.