dvd won't play on my computer

[dendox]

I am trying to watch a deposition on my computer. The CD DVD player won't recognize it.

We called in the tech support folks - the said my cd drive was crappy and old (which it is) and mapped a couple of the towers around the office to my computer. So, I place the disk in those towers - no luck there either.

It is a freaking DVD - how hard can it be? Supposedly my boss has watched this thing. This means that I know it isn't blank.

WTF?????

Anyone have any insight?

 

[96 Buff]

Are any of the drives you've put it in DVD drives? If they're regular CD-ROM drives, then it won't work.

You could always use this as an opportunity to "work from home."

 

[dendox]

they are all cdrw/dvd drives.

Finally found one here in the office that will play the dang thing. Have now mapped that to my computer.

seems really weird that the dvd playon 99% of the computers in the office won't play the DVD. The one that did play it is a dvd burner. Does that make any difference?

 

[96 Buff]

It might make a difference, depending on how the DVD was made and whether or not it was written to play in standard DVD drives. Glad to hear you found a solution.

 

[AUinAustin]

Yep depending on how it was made is important. If I copy a program from my DVR to a DVD on my Sony recorder and do not specifiy to "finalize" the DVD than all I can do is watch it on the Sony. If I finalize it then it works on the laptop and other places.