[Germany bound]

I have a CD recorder
I have finalised two CD discs
It will play in the car,and the orgional CD recorder
but won't play on my home CD player or CD portable unit

Any thoughts on the problem
It maybe more a format problem than anything else

Thanks

[Spruce]

Just a thought, are they RWs or Rs. My old Technics SPL333 can only playback CDRs.

[broadz]

Agree with Spruce. Don't use RWs if you want to play it back on something other than what recorded it in the first place.

[Germany bound]

Its a strange old world

They are RW's but the nice thing is that I can unfinalise them.

I am now playing the discs in my portable DVD player and they are playing okay

strange old world

Thanks again for your replys

[Nigel Goodwin]

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Originally Posted by Germany bound

Its a strange old world

They are RW's but the nice thing is that I can unfinalise them.

I am now playing the discs in my portable DVD player and they are playing okay

strange old world

It's not really strange at all - it's a question of how reflective they are. A normal CD player is designed to play CD's - these are pressed to manufacture them, and are highly reflective (80% or so). A CDR is written in a computer, using completely different technology, and is much less reflective (40-50%?). Most CD players will cope with this, but may be a little 'skippier'.

CD-RW's are worse again, probably only 10-20% of the laser light gets reflected back, so you need a player specifically designed to accept CD-RW's.

[Germany bound]

just to say thanks for all your replys

[Pepperoni Man]

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Originally Posted by Nigel Goodwin

It's not really strange at all - it's a question of how reflective they are. A normal CD player is designed to play CD's - these are pressed to manufacture them, and are highly reflective (80% or so). A CDR is written in a computer, using completely different technology, and is much less reflective (40-50%?). Most CD players will cope with this, but may be a little 'skippier'.

CD-RW's are worse again, probably only 10-20% of the laser light gets reflected back, so you need a player specifically designed to accept CD-RW's.

Not sure about this but the OP is using a CD Recorder rather than a PC so won't he or she be using CD R / RWs "Music" only CDs rather than ordinary CDRs for PC use ?

[Nigel Goodwin]

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Originally Posted by Pepperoni Man

Not sure about this but the OP is using a CD Recorder rather than a PC so won't he or she be using CD R / RWs "Music" only CDs rather than ordinary CDRs for PC use ?

Makes no difference, they are the same construction, it's just that the 'music' discs have some data on them telling the recorder to accept them, otherwise they are identical (and work perfectly in a PC as well).

It's just a kind of 'copy protection', with a large percentage of the money going to the record industry.

[Pepperoni Man]

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Originally Posted by Nigel Goodwin

Makes no difference, they are the same construction, it's just that the 'music' discs have some data on them telling the recorder to accept them, otherwise they are identical (and work perfectly in a PC as well).

It's just a kind of 'copy protection', with a large percentage of the money going to the record industry.

Cheers