If the disc won??™t play, or if the audio quality is bad, try a
different brand of disc. Avoid the el-cheapo blank discs in the bargain bin
at your local computer store, and instead spend the extra nickel on some
brand-name discs (I??™ve found Verbatim discs to be consistently reliable).
Another problem that affects standalone DVD players is that of incompatible
disc formats. Some older players can??™t read movies burned to
DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW discs, so you may need to buy a new player,
or settle for movies played through your PC. (The format that seems to be
the most widely supported is DVD+R, although your mileage may vary.)
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Working with
Media
PC can??™t read disc
Does Windows Explorer hang when you try to copy files off an old disc?
The most common cause of this is simply dust. Try gently wiping the
disc with a clean, soft, dry cloth, or barring that, your shirt. (Wipe in a
straight line, from the center of the disc out to the edge; don??™t rub in a
circular motion.)
Files missing on a data disc
Can??™t see all the files you burned to a disc, particularly if you??™ve burned
the disc more than once? You may??™ve deleted the old files when you
added the latest batch of files. The good news is that??”unless you
erased a rewritable disc??”the ???deleted??? files are still there, only hidden.
To retrieve them, you??™ll need an application that can create a disk image
from a single track, such as ISO Recorder (free, http://isorecorder.
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