Thread: Help required with dvd recorder.

For several years I've used a Packard Bell Easy HDD EHR2080 dvd player/recorder. I thought it was a great piece of kit when I bought it. With time it has become somewhat unreliable when I try to transfer from its hard drive to dvd. It is fine when recording directly to dvd, or has been until this morning .

Yesterday I bought some new blank discs, choosing to neglect my usual Maxell dvd+r, and opting for a cheap supermarket brand (Asda). They're not working. Five times I've tried recording both direct from the television or from the hard drive. I checked them just now and noticed they're dvd-r.

Should this cause such a problem? Does anybody know if there's a reason my Packard Bell won't recognise a dvd-r?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

With thanks


BB

Does it recognise the Maxell still? If so, it is more of the disk problem.

I never liked HP because it tends to be incompatible with others. This is of course a bias opinion. I would try those Maxell disks again before worrying too much.

The good lady wife has already been dispatched to the shops to get some more Maxell's. "And don't come home without them," I yelled after her.

DVD-R is read-only. It's the standard DVD which you buy in any media shop. You can't write to them. Therefore, you can't record on them. What you need is a DVD-RW. Which is re-writable. You can record on it as many times as you like.

Do you know the difference between dvd-r and dvd+r? I understand the rw can be re-used, and the r can't. I wondered if mine wouldn't work as they're -r, whereas I've always used +r historically.

Confused.

I should add the ones I'm trying to record with are brand new, never been used.

You need to get your old disk the DVD+R for it to work again ( if possible the same make as before) that is asumming your mahcine is not broke ? I had this problem before and for some reason some recorders will only use certain types of disk !! why this is i'm not sure but it's a pain in the butt . As for the difference between + and - disks is as Sam says above but becareful to get the right ones as you used before. Goodluck