Owen Smith
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
I suspect the issue with CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that won't play in the Sony UBP-X800M2 is they have not been finalised. Many players including Oppo 95 don't require disc finalisation.
Seems to be what the manual suggests...I suspect the issue with CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that won't play in the Sony UBP-X800M2 is they have not been finalised. Many players including Oppo 95 don't require disc finalisation.
That makes sense. But you need a DVD writer to finalise the disc, or to have been finalising them all along when you burned them (which I did with mine but I have no idea what my brother does).But yeah: if the manual is to be believed then, if the DVD-R's are correctly finalised then, they should play?
I was hoping that you wouldn't ask that. The search function for this site leaves a lot to be desired. I found one thread but it was ripped out of another thread. It only talks about one player.Do you have a link?
hi there! I have an X800M2, I ran 2 tests:Seems to be what the manual suggests...
...I've emailed Dietrich at surround-musik.de to let him know that the UBP-X800 & X800M2 potentially can play their discs (I'd previously told him they weren't compatible). I'm hoping I might get a response that could shed some more light on this; although I think probably anyone on the forum with a DVD writer and an X800 or X800M2 could test compatibility?
I have an X800, but I don't currently have a DVD writer hooked up...
...I think I've got one somewhere; I'll have to dig it out, but might take a while.
But yeah: if the manual is to be believed then, if the DVD-R's are correctly finalised then, they should play?
[Edit] In the list of discs that can't be played: "HD DVD"
I have one HD DVD: Balls of Fury (2007). There is a German Blu-Ray release, but it has German captions and intermurals.
The problem with the DVD-A is probably due to watermarking, that's a copy protection system for commercial DVD-As. A home created DVD-A on DVD-R may well work, or one from a download site explicitly intended for blowing to DVD-R.hi there! I have an X800M2, I ran 2 tests:
- I copied The Beatles "Love" DVD, the copied version only plays the DVD Video part. The original works with DVD-Audio, as expected. So, copied DVD-Vs work but DVD-As do not.
- I copied a blu ray into a DVD. That did not work. It was read as a data DVD. I do not own a Blu Ray writer.
I've heard of the reverse happening as well with the DVD-Rs working but not the DVD+R's. I forget the details but I used to use DVD+R's as they were supposed to be the best for use with my Plextor burner. At some point, for some purpose (I forget why) I had to burn to some DVD-Rs, as the +Rs were not compatible.A note on the DVD-R issue: Several years ago, I put together a DVD of a party my parents threw for one of their anniversaries. I sent out copies to my family, and had most of them say the discs wouldn’t play. I sent out another set, with the same reaction, even after testing them in the two DVD players I have in my house. Then I decided to try burning DVD+R discs instead of DVD-Rs, and everything worked fine for everybody.
I’ve done a handful of other videos since then, and since I’ve run out of -R discs, I only use +Rs, and they all seem to work on the players my family and friends own.
YMMV, of course.
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He said he copied a DVD-A/V to DVD-R and the DVD-V part played but not DVD-A. That sounds like DVD-A watermarking to me, it would be particularly stupid to refuse to play DVD-A just because it's on recordable media.I doubt if it is a watermark, I have a NAD T 585 plays well an own burned copy of Love DVD-A, but my Sony ..800x NOT. SONY prohibited playing, maybe because there is a difference between the commercial disc, and the disc used for own burning copies, even if you have the original DVD-A; there is a thread about this in this forum.
What softwares are you using?hi there! I have an X800M2, I ran 2 tests:
- I copied The Beatles "Love" DVD, the copied version only plays the DVD Video part. The original works with DVD-Audio, as expected.