I picked up a Samsung combination VCR-DVR to transfer old VHS home videos to
DVDs. It worked, but only sorta. The transfer quality is OK, and the Samsung
can play them, but none of my PCs recognize
them--they all say Insert disk when I try to do anything. This means I can't
edit or make
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Subject: [CGUYS] VHS to DVD question
I picked up a Samsung combination VCR-DVR to transfer old VHS home videos to
DVDs. It worked, but only sorta. The transfer quality is OK, and the Samsung
can play them, but none of my PCs recognize
them--they all say Insert disk when I try to do
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Subject: [CGUYS] VHS to DVD question
I picked up a Samsung combination VCR-DVR to transfer old VHS home videos to
DVDs
The only answer I've ever been given is that since the DVD's aren't
commercially produced, programs like RealPlayer Windows Media Player won't
recognize them on PC's
Well, as I said I don't know a lot about video, but I do know enough to be able
to tell you that you've been led astray there.
I have a Panasonic VCR-DVD unit and my Mac mini Superdrive can read the DVD-R
recordings it produces.
Make sure you finalize the DVD-R's. In the case of the Panasonic, it can
play material recorded on non-finalized DVD-R's, but the DVD-R's won't play in
Mac mini (it doesn't read them at all)
You said yes, the PC drives do support DVD-R). Would a different format
make a difference? Or what?. If the reading drive only reads, such as a
DVD-R drive versus a DVD-RW or DVD+RW, then the Samsung-created disc MUST be
finalized. Further, IME, many computers prefer to work with DVD+R/RW while
I picked up a Samsung combination VCR-DVR to transfer old VHS home videos to
DVDs. It worked, but only
sorta. The transfer quality is OK, and the Samsung can play them, but none of
my PCs recognize them--
they all say Insert disk when I try to do anything. This means I can't edit
or make
