My burnt DVD's play great using the PC burner, but won't play on my standalone sony DVD. Sony just says no disc. I used DVD shrink with default settings and -R 4x Princo media.

The sony standalone played the original just fine.

Did I do anything wrong? Could someone help me to overcome this problem or is it simply that the Sony player won't ever read this type of media no matter what?

I dont think that it is the setting with DVD Shrink, I think the problem is ur dvd player. How old is ur stand alone dvd player? Sony is one of many company that doest want their costumers to make copys of dvd so some of there dvd players would refuse to play it.

Try ur dvd-r (backup) at some friends dvd player (test on different dvd players). If ur firends dvd player is able to play it then its ur dvd players problem.

Yeah, I don't think Sony likes the DVD-R format at all. I got no problem playing DVD+R on multiple Sony decks. The oldest is Sony S530D. Time for a change man. IMO and testing, contrary to what sites have reported, I found DVD+R to be more compatible. My FujiFilm 2.4x DVD+R works on a Pioneer DVR-104 under Mac OS X. If that's not maximum compatibility, I don't know what is. Besides, you can use bitsetting to change DVD+R to DVD-ROM. Can't do that w/ DVD-R.

Which DVD writer are you using?

Thank you both Stoner and BabyChar but I've resolved the problem and it wasn't the Sony player at fault..... but me! The DVD's wouldn't play on my friends new player either and that's what got me to thinking there's more to this.

The drive is a LiteOn SOHW812s which I hope to flash using the 832 files so I can use it for DL burning.

Question: Do either of you, or anyone else, know of any physical differences between the 812 and 832 models? I'm guessing the price difference is due to the included software, Nero 6, in the later model? Yes, yes I'll post this question in the correct forum, but while we're here.

I had no real understanding of the software I was using and this was my first attempt at burning DVD's. I followed the 37 steps at the forum.dvddecrypter.com Guides section titled 'DVD-9 > DVD+-R' and voila` the copies are perfect! It even cut out the damaged areas of the original DVD's leaving the whole segment in tact! This is what I was hoping would happen. I now have my movies back and they're in better shape.

Burn the discs with -rom as the booktype, even the most evil of dvd players may like it.

i have the same problem .. my dav-c770 won't play if i burn from dw800 .. the rest dvd players at home run fine ..

i can play my dvd if i burn with my vaio frv28 (matshita uj 810) ..

both using -r disc ..

so, to solve this .. i have to change to +r on my dw800 ??

thx

Ive got the sony DVP-NS730P stand alone dvd player and got pioneer A08 dvd burner. Got 106D as well. Ive never had a prob playing my dvd movie backups on it. + and -. It even plays dvd-DL disks

yeah some players do not play copies i have a sony DVP-S9000ES dvd player that i got a while ago. the ES line is sonys best stuff when i get the dvd player it was $999.99 and its only a single disk and dont play any copies even cdrs so that kinda sucks i payed that much and cant use it for copies. but most dvd players now like 9 out of 10 of them do play most everything. i plan on getting the new model of the ES one i got soon.

Sweet i just found out my dvd player will indeed play copies. on ly som but some none the less. cd rw works better and some brands work better than others and they seem to work more when they r recorded at a slower speed. all i have tried so far were some vcd's and they worked some were a lil choppie maby cause they were made at fast speed and this player is pickey, the vcd's play fine on the dvd player in my car though. i also searched around and am told dvd-r and rw will work. i was told some of the sonys r just pickey as they wernt intended to play copies,and it also does not mention that it plays cd-r or rw. so im glad i found this out, so if u have a player that woulnt play copies tri different media of a high quality and burn at a lower speed u may have some luck as i did.