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First of all I am new to DVD recording, and I recently bought this recorder, and recording using DVD+R discs I have found that they do not want to play in either of my HP computers, which both have DVD burner/players in them. All DVD+ discs that I have recorded in this machine and try to play on the computers want to start out on chapter 20 or so and I have to fast forward to the end of the movie and let the movie start over. (The media players are set to repeat any videos)
Anyways, on to my question:
I thought I was getting a great deal at Office Depot and bought 2 100 disc packages of DVD discs and after getting them home, opening one of the packages and burning a disc I noticed that they were DVD-R discs
They burn and play fine in the iLo machine even though the manual says the machine will only play DVD- discs, not record on them, and in fact play fine in both computers, except that when you play the disc they seem to be in a more simple format.(only information on the first chapter is shown, the rest of the boxes to the corresponding number of 5 minute chapters are blank)
My question is can I extend the recording time on a DVD- disc like I can on a DVD+?
I have the machine set up to make a 3 hour disc, but while recording a program that had been saved on my DirecTivo the ilo recorder stopped recording at 1:58:40 using the DVD- disc.
I know that I should be using the correct disc, but I have 60 bucks worth of DVD- discs that have been opened and am hoping to be able to use them since they seem to work fine except for the time issue.
Thanks for any advice
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 4. September 2005 @ 20:15
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