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daviddegraw
5th January 2005, 06:21
hello I burned a DVD and it won't play on my xbox but does on my brothers and we got the systems at the same store same day. Do I just need to get a new system?
cypher_soundz
6th January 2005, 19:31
it maybe you have different drives, there are 2 differnt drives for the xbox one is a samsung and the other a thomson, if you have a samsung drive you can play alot more media types than with the other one.
Hope this helps , also try over at vcdhelp.com and xbox-scene.com
Regards
cyph
daviddegraw
6th January 2005, 20:58
how do i know/tell which one i have?
cypher_soundz
7th January 2005, 00:34
seems theres 3 ! :eek:
http://faqs.ign.com/articles/452/452378p1.html
press eject and look from top.
i've got a philips one, it doesnt play copied cd's , ive not tried cdrw's,plays dvd+r /dvd-r .
Regards
cyph
daviddegraw
7th January 2005, 23:16
Ok i used you picture to see that both my brother and I have the phillips drive and his plays the dvds and mine doesn't so what now? I use dvd shrink and memorex 4x DVD+RW.
Mentalmummy
5th February 2005, 17:02
Even some xbox drives by same manufacturers won`t always read dvd rewriteables.

I managed to get mine reading everything but dvd rewriteables :(

Dave
cypher_soundz
5th February 2005, 17:17
I'm not really sure what to suggest now, try burning the disk at 1X did you get your xbox first? maybe your laser is a little weaker?
Regards
cyph