I have a Maxwell DVD-RW disc and I want to know if my Xbox will be able to play them with the DVD kit, the regular Xbox and not 360 I tried the disc on my PS2 and it could not read it, I put it in the Xbox and it recognized it as a DVD, but I do not have the DVD Kit yet, I found it cheap on the internet and was wondering if it would be a waste of money I already spent 15 bucks on 15 RW DVDs, I don't want to spend extra getting the DVD Kit and have it still not work Sorry if this isn't the right place to put this.
I have some more info I have another DVD player that has the same disc tray as my Xbox, no holes or large circle in the center, but I can't find anyway to confirm that it's the same type of driver, the disc works really well on this DVD player If the disc tray on the DVD player looks the same as the one on my Xbox does that make it likely that the disc will work on my Xbox?
It's a -rw? .. those are uncommon. The only way to find out if they will work (and maxell are very bad disks) is to try it. Xbox drives are strange.. they are very pickey over media types and brands.
Thanks for the replies I was told that Maxwell was one of the highest quality, but I'm more willing to believe you guys, I really just didn't think that I would have to worry about whether or not a DVD player would play a DVD, why make DVDs that don't play on DVD players? The discs are RW I bought the Kit, it was only about 5 bucks, the problem is that technology always seems to go wrong for me when it can, so, more than likely I'm throwing away 5 bucks when I'm probably going to have to get a real DVD player anyway Wish me luck.
good luck.. you will get good results from -r disks (just about always) My pair of samsung drives will read some +rw disks and not others from the same pack.. no luck at all with the one -rw a friend has.. but that will work fine in his philips drive. These are old cheap built down to a price drives (with odd firmware which allows them to read reverse helix xbox game disks).. media readability is patchy. If they work then fine, but if they don't I would suggest using straight half decent (ridata or better I mean.. not anything from cmc or moser-baer.. no real need for +1AAA top dollar) -R one shot disks. 25 for the price of 2 r/w that only get you 100 burns at most and won't do the xbox laser much good even if they do seem to read the first few burns..
I don't know if I could use regular -r discs, I'm using the discs so I can grab pictures off of the internet and sketch them in front of the TV, I never know what I'm going to want until I know what I want to sketch, so I need to be able to go back and put new pictures on a disc If they only burn 100 times then that's going to put a wrench in my plans, they say the discs are supposed to burn up to 1,000 times If I had to use the -rw discs would you recommend just getting a real DVD player? Would a real DVD player have trouble reading -rw discs?
Well, just like I knew, it doesn't work, which makes me really mad because I don't understand the point of a DVD that doesn't play on DVD players, my other real DVDs play so it's the disc maker's fault, it means it's a product below expected standards, they should make them so they play on all DVD players, I just blew 20 bucks for nothing That's my rant.
