The new DVDs will be compatible with the vast majority of existing consumer electronics DVD players worldwide. This process requires discussion and testing in addition to the development of a new video specification from the DVD Forum. For example, a study had to be undertaken to confirm the compatibility with existing DVD players. It also takes time to complete physical disc specifications for the new recordable DVD media.

There is no 100% guarantee that any DVD you make your DVD recorder will play in all DVD players. Whether or not you can play a DVD you have made using your DVD recorder on most current DVD players (manufactured within the last three years) will depend mostly on the format used in recording the DVD.

No. To ensure playback you?ll need a dedicated HD DVD player, XBox360 with add-on HD DVD drive or a HD-Rom drive in your PC.

Because our DVDs are made in Asia, they were given all region encoding (0), which means they can be played on any DVD player internationally. This includes the U.S., Canada and all European countries.

Your discs will play in any DVD player which is rated for DVD-R discs, which includes the vast majority of DVD players sold since 2001. Ironically, there are cases where high-end DVD players (costing $400 or more) use lasers which cannot read writeable media. If you installed an expensive home entertainment system which included a Samsung or Toshiba DVD player, check your documentation carefully to make sure your player will accept writeable discs.

This is a difficult question, and different people will give you different answers. The makers of DVD burners will usually say that there are no compatibility problems, while pressing houses, which specialize in large runs of "regular" DVDs, often stress the incompatibilities. There are also two kinds of video DVD blanks--DVD+R and DVD-R--and supporters of one or the other argue that compatibility problems mostly affect their competitor's format.

Common specifications are essential. This competition, which is a great force toward innovation, would not be happening if it were not building on a base of HTTP, URL and HTML standards. These forces are strong. They are the forces which, by their threat to tear the web apart into fragmented incompatible pieces, force companies toward common specifications.

DVD-R "minus" COMPATIBILITY - 2204 of ALL 3688 TOTAL DVD PLAYERS (click to check your model of DVD player for Minus or General compatibility) DVD+R "plus" COMPATIBILITY - 1731 of ALL 3688 TOTAL DVD PLAYERS (click to check your model of DVD player for Plus compatibility) In practice, as shown on the pages linked here, about 53% of today's DVD players don't work with either DVD+R or +RW discs, a number which is substantially more than the "minority" they admit to on the page above.

Some of our DVD players do have the ability to play CDs. Consult the specifications on each model to find one suitable for you.

Initially no, because the DVD-A spec was written after the first and second generation of DVD players were already on the market so they are unprepared for the format. The video portion of a DVD-A will play on most players (if the disc is authored with a DVD-V zone) but the audio zone (the hi-res DVD-A portion) will not. Many manufacturers now have universal players on the market that will play DVD-A, DVD-V, and any of the CD formats as well.

While the DVD Movie and Game discs you buy or rent in the stores appear to be "silver" or "gold", they are usually made from aluminum coatings, over a clear layer that has been mechanically pressed with pits or holes to encode the data that the lasers in the DVD players decode into music and video signals. DVD Video discs that are made this way do not require the light sensitive dye layer used in DVD-R discs, and so they appear clear on the bottom, or nearly so. They never have to be "burned".

DVDs are played in a DVD player hooked up to a TV. DVD-ROMs contain computer data and are read by a computer’s DVD-ROM drive. Many new computers can also play DVD-Videos. However, programming on DVD was made primarily for stand-alone home DVD units.

AsianScreens does not guarantee playback of DVD titles we ship on all brands/models of DVD players. We recommend, however, that they be viewed using DVD players that meet both of the following criteria:

Yes. HD DVD players have been designed to be backwards compatible with regular DVDs so your existing collection is not obsolete. In addition, HD DVD equipment will allow upscaling of a DVD image up to a resolution 1080i/1080p for maximum visual quality.

Yes. However, CD players cannot play DVDs. Also please note that most DVD players are not capable of playing back CD-R or CD-RW discs.

There should be virtually no compatibility problem with the DVD-R that you receive from us and DVD players that are currently being sold on the market. Some early release DVD players did not comply with DVD-R industry standards and those particular players would have compatibility issues. If you currently own a DVD player, please verify that it can play DVD-Rs. We do not recommend what software or hardware to buy - new products are introduced constantly.

Some consumers have had their players 'fixed' to play software from other regions. If the machine is 'fixed', this can, however, affect the player's ability to play legitimate region 4 encoded titles. This modification of the DVD player can also void the manufacturer's warranty. True, some retail stores do sell "multi-zone" capable DVD players. However, these DVD players do not meet the standards as set down by the DVD consortium.

The majority of DVD players now in the market appear to play at least one type of DVD?R 4.7gb "general purpose" type discs well. We sell all formats of recordable DVD discs, including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, and so on. So whichever burner you buy, we can sell you the discs you need at very competitive prices. There are other burners out in the market, including the Panasonic drives which burn only DVD-R/W and DVD-RAM discs.

DVDs are categorized into 8 regions dependent upon geographic location with the last two regions reserved for special applications. Onkyo DVD players sold in the United States can only play back region 1 DVDs or ??all region?? DVDs that are not region specific. The following list is a breakdown by region. Region 1 United States, Canada and the U.S.