Need to identify a disc

I have a store-bought DVD disk that won't play on my neighbor's
player, but plays nicely on my computer and on my standalone player.
I want to get the properties of the disc, so I can see if the disc is
- or + r and whatever else. What program is a good one to use?

Thanks

Gecko

In article <occ8s3517m0f09tum8u9s1qlib7rjdcdci@4ax.com>,
gecko <alpha@olympus.net> wrote:
>I have a store-bought DVD disk that won't play on my neighbor's
>player, but plays nicely on my computer and on my standalone player.
>I want to get the properties of the disc, so I can see if the disc is
>- or + r and whatever else. What program is a good one to use?

http://www.cdspeed2000.com/files/NeroCDSpeed_47715.zip
http://home.scarlet.be/~ping3828/dow...tifier_501.zip

On 2/26/2008, gecko posted this:
> I have a store-bought DVD disk that won't play on my neighbor's
> player, but plays nicely on my computer and on my standalone player.
> I want to get the properties of the disc, so I can see if the disc is
> - or + r and whatever else. What program is a good one to use?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gecko

I would venture to say that a store-bought DVD is a pressed DVD, not a
DVD+R or -R. Unless it was a fly-by-night pirate store, of course :-)

Now maybe I'll download the programs mentioned by Mike S.

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Gene E. Bloch <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote:

>I would venture to say that a store-bought DVD is a pressed DVD, not a
>DVD+R or -R. Unless it was a fly-by-night pirate store, of course :-)

Smaller companies release DVD-R and DVD+R discs.
http://www.amazon.com/Pardon-Us-Laur.../dp/B00078X3UE for one
example.

On 2/26/2008, Kimba W Lion posted this:
> Gene E. Bloch <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote:
>
>> I would venture to say that a store-bought DVD is a pressed DVD, not a
>> DVD+R or -R. Unless it was a fly-by-night pirate store, of course :-)
>
> Smaller companies release DVD-R and DVD+R discs.
> http://www.amazon.com/Pardon-Us-Laur.../dp/B00078X3UE for one
> example.

Interesting.

My guess had been that it would get more economical to press disks at
fairly small quantities, such as a thousand or so.

Presumably the link above refers to someone who actually investigated,
rather than just guessing :-)

Thanks.

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