Re: DVD-R to DVD+R is it possible?

You did finalize the disc, right ?

Steve



<bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1136300825.368606.89210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Came up against this issue the other day.
>
> I burned a DVD-R on a Toshiba Standalone burner, (it played fine in a
> couple DVD players) took it home from the office, popped it in my
> HP420i and went to copy. All I had was the blank DVD+R that came with
> the burner. It copied the source to the HD, then after I put in the
> blank it told me the disc was incompatible with the source. I know they
> write slightly differently but the data should be the vob files
> correct? ( it was a video I produced and mastered to DVCam, trying to
> convert to DVD)
>
> Next day, same source disc, same procedure except this time with a
> blank DVD-R (the HP420i is supposed to burn both though the manual
> makes no mention oe -R) it copies the source to HD, starts to burn the
> blank then kicks it out, saying an error occured. (Unfortunately I
> didn't write down the error text) tried another blank -R and the same
> thing.
>
> I have used the 420i for CD burning, but this was the first DVD burn
> attempt. the Source DVD is Pengo as were the two blanks -R that failed
> (borrowed them from the office)
>
> any ideas?
>


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