not sure if this is the right place !?. Hi all, I have got a Video Casstte with some old home movies on, taken about 1935 !, I have a couple of friends with DVD Recorders, i asked them both to copy the Video Cassette onto a Blank DVD for me. Now i find that neither of them will play on my DVD Player. One of the Recorders used a DVD RAM disc, the other one used a DVD-R disc, i am not entirely sure my DVD Player can read DVD RAM disc's anyway, but i do know it can read DVD-R disc's. I have a feeling that these newly recorded DVD's should be CLOSED or FINALISED somehow, but neither of my friends know what i am talking about !!!!!!!!, am i talking sense here or what ?, otherwise what else could be wrong ?. tim
Try using a DVD-RW in which case it does not have to be finalized. Well that is if your DVD player can read DVD-RW. After a DVD-R has been finalized it cannot be recorded to again.
thanks friend, so how can i finalise the DVD-R disc, i assume i have to go back to the DVD recorder that copied the video cassette in the first place, but the owner thinks i am talking from my * * * * !!! when i mention that this has to done. tim
DVD-R most of the time has to be finalized in the same unit from where it was recorded. In some cases it must be finalized directly after recording or it may not be readable in that same drive.
thanks kjvsword, that makes a lot of sense that does buddy, thanks. they both played ok in the source drive, directly after recording, but now ejected who knows. i hope to pop by this fellas flat on tuesday night ........ tim
