DVD Problems: A DVD will play on my laptop but not the DVD player

[Kathy in Cambridge]

another DVD plays fine on both. :shrug:

What could be the problem?

[are_we_united_yet]

1. Is it from a different Country?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. No-I got it at Target

It's Fahrenheit 9/11. :-(

[Liberal Veteran]

6. I'd take it back and tell them it may be defective...

...sometimes they can be just defective enough to prevent them from playing in standalone machines.

[are_we_united_yet]

9. Oh.

Yeah. I tend to agree with the above poster. Sometimes foreign DVD's won't play on certain players but I'm not sure of the details.

[Poiuyt]

Was it a commercial DVD or one that you burned yourself?

If it's one that you burned, you might want to try using a different brand of media.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. More info please.....is it a COMMERCIAL DVD or recorded DVD

And if recorded is it a DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW (and what color is the reflective side?).

[Xipe Totec]

4. Dual Layer DVDs

They're newer and some of the older players can't handle them. I have the opposite problem because my PC DVD players are newer than my stand-alone units.

[freetobegay]

5. Is it a homemade DVD or store bought?

DVD-r or DVD+r?

[DS1]

7. check for fingerprints

[libbygurl]

8. Is yours a Sony DVD player? They tend to be really finicky, sensitive to

dust, smudges, etc.

[Nevernose]

10. I will never buy another Sony DVD player

And it helps, I find, if every couple of showings you run a DVD cleaning disc through the Sony player.

[Hand]

11. Insh'Allah... NT