[Miggy]

So, I've had the Pani DVD recorder for a while and it is a real neat toy. I've recorded lots of stuff off the satellite, so I can clear out its HD occasionally. The problem I've run into is when I try to play these discs on other DVD players. And these are just plain DVD-R discs I'm talking about (I guess I would since that player doesn't do anything else, unless you count DVD-RAM!).

I first took a disc I recorded at 4 1/2 hour length, that contained 3 Italian Horror movies (Zombie, Gates of Hell, The Beyond). I was going to watch Gates of Hell over at my cousin's house on his $99 Oritron player. Well, about 20 minutes into the movie, it began to skip. A little bit here and there, but then before we knew it, it had skipped through the rest of the movie and we were at the end. I chalked this up to the POS factor in the Oritron player and then watched the rest at home. Turns out the player was doing us a favor.... I skipped the last half of the movie on purpose and saved myself an hour of my life.

Then, I finish making the first compilation DVD of some of my parents' home movies and take it over there. It does the same thing. The player they have is my previous Pani (RP62S), so I know it's a good one. It looks just like the newer recorder model, except thinner.

So, what is going on here? Would I have better luck playing discs in their machine that is only recorded on normal (2 hour) mode? I guess I can still use it to make stuff for myself, but if I can't take something I recorded to someone else then it's almost pointless and I might should have gotten a DVD-Audio or SCD player.

The discs I used were Memorex.

Miggy, the Thief