Let me outline what I want to do, and the problems I have encountered.
My wife and I own a Toshiba D-R17DTKB DVD Video recorder. This is a fully capable HDMI, DIVX that records onto a quite decent range of DVD discs. We use DVD+RW and DVD-RW for day to day recording of Freeview Channels from our Samsung 32" which again is fully digitally compatible with just about every socket known to man.
We have never had any problem with either device, and consider both to have been excellent buys.
When we do a scan for channels, we get around 104 channels from the Stockland Hill mast. So we can get most channels that we want to view.
What I want to do, is to buy a simple DVD PLAYER, so that we can still record programmes onto the Toshiba, but also watch any programmes that we have previously recorded on this DVD Player.
And this is where we have hit quite ridiculous problems. Virtually every DVD player that we have tried, CLAIMS to play DVD-RW and DVD+RW. But they do not!!
Some require us to 'finalise' the discs before being able to play them. The Toshiba Unit allows us to do this, and also has an 'undo finalise' capability, which is useful. So that's not a problem.
But having done this, when we place the disc into the brand new all singing and dancing DVD Player, all we get is "Disc Not Supported" or Disc not recognised.
We have tried Sony, Verbatim, Fuji, Kodak and other discs and NOT ONE of them will play in any plain simple DVD player that we have tried. All the units have been brand new. I have now returned 6 to various retailers, because they don't do what they say they will do.
So the question, quite simply is this.
I understand that there are numerous formats of DVD. But what I can't get my head round are these claims on virtually all new players on the market these days, is that they PLAY DVD+RW and DVD-RW disc, when they clearly do not.
They ALL play fine on the Toshiba. No problem at all. So it's not disc problems.
[b]So does ANYONE know of a plain simple, bog standard DVD Player that actually does what it claims to do, because so far, none of them will do what they say they will do.
There is surely a simple solution to what many tens of thousands of people do regularly, and that's record and play TV programmes.
As far as I am concerned, if a DVD player says it will play pre-recorded discs of the formats I use in the recorder, then it should do that. I'm not remotely interested in the banding/layers/ production, or any other techno-babble that most websites go on about.......I just want a Player that works like it says it will work on the box.
I find it ludicrous that I can't take a recorded disc from my recorder, and simply play it on another player, whatever make or type it is. There seem to be big problems though.
Thanks if you can help.
My wife and I own a Toshiba D-R17DTKB DVD Video recorder. This is a fully capable HDMI, DIVX that records onto a quite decent range of DVD discs. We use DVD+RW and DVD-RW for day to day recording of Freeview Channels from our Samsung 32" which again is fully digitally compatible with just about every socket known to man.
We have never had any problem with either device, and consider both to have been excellent buys.
When we do a scan for channels, we get around 104 channels from the Stockland Hill mast. So we can get most channels that we want to view.
What I want to do, is to buy a simple DVD PLAYER, so that we can still record programmes onto the Toshiba, but also watch any programmes that we have previously recorded on this DVD Player.
And this is where we have hit quite ridiculous problems. Virtually every DVD player that we have tried, CLAIMS to play DVD-RW and DVD+RW. But they do not!!
Some require us to 'finalise' the discs before being able to play them. The Toshiba Unit allows us to do this, and also has an 'undo finalise' capability, which is useful. So that's not a problem.
But having done this, when we place the disc into the brand new all singing and dancing DVD Player, all we get is "Disc Not Supported" or Disc not recognised.
We have tried Sony, Verbatim, Fuji, Kodak and other discs and NOT ONE of them will play in any plain simple DVD player that we have tried. All the units have been brand new. I have now returned 6 to various retailers, because they don't do what they say they will do.
So the question, quite simply is this.
I understand that there are numerous formats of DVD. But what I can't get my head round are these claims on virtually all new players on the market these days, is that they PLAY DVD+RW and DVD-RW disc, when they clearly do not.
They ALL play fine on the Toshiba. No problem at all. So it's not disc problems.
[b]So does ANYONE know of a plain simple, bog standard DVD Player that actually does what it claims to do, because so far, none of them will do what they say they will do.
There is surely a simple solution to what many tens of thousands of people do regularly, and that's record and play TV programmes.
As far as I am concerned, if a DVD player says it will play pre-recorded discs of the formats I use in the recorder, then it should do that. I'm not remotely interested in the banding/layers/ production, or any other techno-babble that most websites go on about.......I just want a Player that works like it says it will work on the box.
I find it ludicrous that I can't take a recorded disc from my recorder, and simply play it on another player, whatever make or type it is. There seem to be big problems though.
Thanks if you can help.