captions: Will this machine always play captions on DVDs that are burned on a home DVD burner?
512911
Depends on what you mean by "captions." If you mean old-style cc--white letters against a black rectangle, they will only play if you use composite input or component at 480i. Starting with 480p, that kind of cc is not supported by any player; HDMI doesn't support cc either. Switchable subtitles will play on anything.
1558993
Yes, this machine will play DVDs on other machines. THERE ARE TWO STAGES to finish recording. The first is hitting of the "off" button after you are finished (which will probably allow you to run the DVD on the SAMSUNG and no other machine. The SECOND State is to go to the Disk Manager menu and FINALIZE the disk. I played my recorded DVD on two different computers plus a SONY component. Again - two stages 1) hit OFF button when finishing recording; 2) From Menu, go to Disk Manager and FINALIZE the disk. Another nifty feature, the machine automatically places 5 minute chapters on what you record. JV - cfnjv@localnet.com
1488205
No you must have a blu-ray burner. Blu-ray burners will burn DVD's, but not the other way around.
176500
If the unit you got is good and it was installed correctly, then try burning dvds using the mp4 format and cds as regular audio or data cds. This works for me. If these do not work have the unit checked out
2005048
More than likely. I bought my region 2 dvds from eBay and they play like a regular DVD would. As long as it isn't a bad boot leg copy, you shouldn't have any problems
1805502
I haven't tried it but I'm guessing most likely not. Not many home DVD players do if any that I'm aware of. I'd suggest burning a movie to a DVD-R if you are going that route.
1562781
I have only played commercial one dvds on this player. I don't know if it would hand home made ones or not. I don't see why it wouldn't.
792200
Be careful what DVD blanks you purchase. DVD+Rs that I recorded only played back on this machine. I was about to try DVD-R when the machine seemed to lose its control logic. Now it does not recognize any DVDs as readable or writable. It is not that old and has been flakey for a while.
1106136
The DVD could be burned as a data disc. It would not be playable on a DVD console player unless it can read and play back native JPG or AVI files.
277738
I really only use mine for loading software and for burning CDs to archive photos, but I'm perfectly certain that if you burn a DVD on it, it can be played on another DVD player. I own two of these, and the only problem I've had is one occasionally fails to latch closed reliably: it always latches eventually.
1026002
Yes, but this software is not very easy to use. The instruction manual is over 1,300 pages long -- no kidding. It doesn't really live up to the Apple promise in their TV spots of making tasks like this intuitive and easy. Steep learning curve but you can make DVDs that will play on your player.
680737
Yes- We play very few Blu-ray and the unit has had no issues with either commercial DVD's or most I have burned in the past. It does not play DVD ROM's (which kind of stinks because I'd burned a lot of older TV series to this format) It also will not play most +R recorded media (sometime yes, usually no) so check what media you burned to.
2565
Sorry, can't help. We use the machine for DVD only and so far have not encountered this issue.
481167
Yes, caption is perfectly displayed on the tv screen using this converter box. Programs are very clear also. Its a very good box,
222406
My last two DVD players worked perfectly with CC on my old flat screen TV and my new one. I have the Icom player hooked up to one TV and just received the Ivid player (same exact model, just different name) for the new TV. Neither of them will allow my TV's to display captioning. The fault lies with Icom/Ivid; whether it's a setting issue or not is beyond me. I tried playing with the settings on my TV's as well as the Blu-ray players (including analog component hookup and HDMI digital), with no luck. I have to get to the bottom of this. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
1523535
Actually I purchased the DVD for my brother who lives in other country and took the DVD player with him. We put USB drives and Data DVD's with videos in AVI format, and played them without difficult. Probably some videos were in another format but I don't remember, the fact is that all the videos in the media were played. I don't think it would be able to read video formats from camcorders or Digital cameras without conversion to playable formats.
188233
I have only played regular movies successfully ..it would not play DVDs which I converted from tape to DVD.. Vod or mpg format