Hi there, I have a friend who purchased an Akai ADV32ST surround sound DVD player. This unit will only play OEM DVD's and OEM CD Audio discs!
I recently made a copy of a DVD that I own (On DVD+R Media) and a copy of a DVD that he owns (On DVD-R) Media using the excellent [url=http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tools?tool=155#comments]DVD Shrink[/url].
This unit also has a problem with copied CD's (Old ones that I own) which according to Cloney XL have no copy protection on them. I have tried a copy in Nero as well.
This unit will not play anything that has been copied!!! ARGH!!!!
You can go down to the local $2.00 store and buy a crappy OEM CD Audio disc, and it will play it!
I have discovered how to remove the Macrovision protection off the DVD player, and changed the region to Zone 9 (There wasnt any Zone 0 choice) default was zone 4, turned off the unit, turned it on, rechecked the macrovision and zone settings (Still as I had set them) Tryed to play both DVD+R and DVD-R and a copied CD Audio disc, and it STILL wont play them...just says loading.....and hangs.
Is this player looking for something else on the CD Audio/DVD recorded disks? It has become a challenge to me now, and thru stubborness, I'm not going to give up :-)
Any ideas people on how to get this brute to play anything other than OEM CD Discs and OEM DVD Disks?
Edit: Ooops, meant to add that all 3 discs I refer to all play on 3 different standalone DVD players (Including an OLD dell notebook)and 2 different DVD PC recorders/players and 3 different PC CD Roms........
