CD-R and DVD Players

[Gee]

Happy to just buy my new Sony DVD player and now very sad to find in the fine print of owner's man. that it does not play CD-R discs! What's up with this? Since I bought it to replace my CD player I'm in a heck a fix. Should I take it back since it does not play CD's as it disingenuously says on the box? Is it only Sony that has incorporated this evil into its new players? Is this a new move by the hardware makers to destroy the CD-R collections of the world?

[pukkaboy]

dunno?

[a-arse]

Take It back get an older sony that reads CD-R or another brand,
Tell them Its an unwanted gift,
that one always works :) hehe

[Shitbear]

I gotta a friend who has a Toshiba DVD player and it plays some CD-Rs and not others. I suggest that you try it with some different brands before taking it back.

[GREEK_MP3]

My Pioneer DVD-ROM has no problems with CD-R.....

[John M]

nor does my Toshiba

[Mister Bill]

It's a conspiracy by sony. Since Sony owns a music company, they're willing to piss off their computer market to make a few more bucks in their music market. Damn conglomerates.

My Creative PC-DVD Dxr2 reads CD-r's just fine.

[piesupreme]

i got a toshiba dvd-rom on this pooter, does everything i need it to. :D

[ReDVsion]

Me, I've got a Memorex (I have always entrusted memorex drives and always will - they work spectacularly), and it works like a charm w/ CDRs/RWs. Better than my CD copier, I might add... :D

[bjay125]

I've had both Pioneer and Acer 16x DVD drives recently. Both worked exceptionally well with CD-R's, CD-RW's, etc. As a matter of fact, both read "highly-scratched" CDs much better than my piece-of-crap Memorex 48x CD-ROM. Take it back and get another.

[Mr. Ice]

my pioneer 16x dvd-rom reads cd-r and cd-rw just as well as my plextor drives do (just not as fast).

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I would have to agree with Mr. Bill on this one... Sony is evil. EEEEEVVVIIIILLLL... I won't buy anything that even remotely resembles a computer device made by Sony.

[ReDVsion]

bjay: I've never had any problems with Memorex drives and I've bought several. Hmmm...

[pukkaboy]

if you ask me, why do you want to play CD-R's on your DVD player anyway?? why don't you just use your pc & winamp??? seems to work well for me.

[bjay125]

Originally posted by ReDVsion
bjay: I've never had any problems with Memorex drives and I've bought several. Hmmm...

Unfortunately, my experience with Memorex has been much worse. The 48x CD-ROM still works, but it didn't extract audio very well. I would always get inaccurate read "blips" in the wav file. I thought this was normal until I got my Pioneer 16x DVD and realized I no longer had to check each and every wav file before encoding to mp3. And as for my Memorex CD-RW... with minimal use, it crapped out in about a year, maybe less. Everytime I would try to burn a CD, the 1st attempt was always a coaster, and then it would work the second time. Then shortly thereafter I couldn't burn anything at all. And the folks at Memorex were not too anxious to give me a replacement. Now I completely avoid Memorex. I even hate their blank CDs.

[Gee]

Well, to come full circle, I was talking about a stand-alone DVD player, not a computer drive, although my HP CD writer-generated discs don't seem to work well in my Compaq DVD computer drive either, however they work just fine in my car CD and my old CD player for my stereo before it died.

(And strangely enough, I've had a lot of luck with the blank Sony CD-R discs. Apparently they just sell them as coasters, while barring their use in their newer products.)

Although I use Winamp for all my mp3/wav processing I don't much like the mp3 through the computer option because, even though I have JBL speakers pasted to my monitor and there is a big "ultra-bass" sticker on the front, the wattage seems to be so puny compared to my stereo amp, it's not worth talking about--but it sounds pretty good through the headphones except for the low level hiss that Compaq refuses to discuss. Now if I do an audio out from the tower to my stereo amp, I run into grounding problems that you don't even want to hear about. So life gets more complicated by the minute.

Anyway I traded out the Sony for a Pioneer deck and that is fine with CD-R but doesn't have 5.1 output and the remote control is not nearly as nice. Now obviously this is not a case where all of the technology has not arrived. It's just that the companies choose to dole it out in dribs and drabs so they can sell an improved product tomorrow.

When the world reaches perfection, please someone leave a message on my voice mail so that I don't miss it.

[rm']

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
I would have to agree with Mr. Bill on this one... Sony is evil. EEEEEVVVIIIILLLL... I won't buy anything that even remotely resembles a computer device made by Sony.

Bigot :D

You must admit, Sony makes absolutely spectacular consumer electronics, and are tops for innovation. Panasonic has some OK stuff, but they're a little iffy. Borderline spectacularity.

[ShokWav]

Uh, yep - I found sum other kewl sites along with http://www.dvd.co.za/ - I also found http://www.codefreedvd.com/ - a DVD player type online shop where you can buy zone-free top-of-the-range DVD players - they play any DVD's you toss at 'em