help please concerning dvd player

hi to all
heres my problem
i have a copy of a movie that was downloaded from the net
burned with alcohol at low speed on a dvd-r 4.7 disk
what i wanna know is why does my jvc dvd player reads the movie fine when my sony dvd player who by the way is more recent than the jvc says it cannot play the movie. is there something i can do to make those copies compatible with all my dvd players? is there a patch or something and does someone know the exact reason for this problem. by the way ive downloaded dvd movie that were burn and red fine by my sony dvd player...please help

 

the downloaded file type isn't compatible with the Sony DVD player and it is with the JVC. you can convert the file to work on the Sony yes

 

ok...do you have a clue how?

 

sounds like your sony dvd player don't like dvd-r, go to videohelp.com and put your model number of your sony dvd player and it will tell you what your player will or won't play as far as formats and disk type, good luck

 

ok thanks...but that is why im asking because i cant download 2 movies...burn them ont 2 dvd-r of the same brand and it will read one movie and not read the other... could it have something to do with how or the source of the movie that was posted ?

 

Check your TV standard, PAL/NTSC. My JVC plays either, Sony's usually do not.

You can usually run a VOB through Gspot and it will tell you what it is.

 

ok
thank for the reply

 

when you say can't download the movies are you saying from some web site? are the files torrents, also does your soney play dvd-r dvd's? did you go to the site i said earlyer? did you have to convert the files that you downloaded?

 

sorry i meant CAN not CANT
no i pick up my movies from a newsgroup
95% of them are image files that i burn with alcohol
yes my sony play dvd-r
thats what i find curious i can download let say spiderman 3 and harry potter...burn them on the same bran of dvd-r
one will be red by my sony player and the other wont...really would like to know why that is

 

a good thing would be to fo is get g-spot and run the file that wont play throught the sony player, it might be that that movie is a pal disk

 

ok ill try it
thanks for the help !!

 

if its pal can it be converted into ntsc ?

 

yes it can theres several ways to do that do a search here and there are a few threads on how to convert