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When you think you've made a perfect backup of your discs, with a nice label on it working on all your DVD players and safely guarded from your kids, then you might want to check each of them with your new DVD player. Our member and Administrator C0deKing found out that his new Samsung HT-TQ85 Home Theater System was rejecting his old backups on DVD-R discs.

The system returned the message: 'PLAY PROHIBITED PLEASE, CHECK DISC'.

Odd, but a search on the internet revealed that there are a lot more people with the same problem. A lot of people think this is due to poor media quality but of course our Administrators know with what brand and burners they burn their discs! As C0deKing writes:

'Sure enough DVD+R discs set to DVD-ROM, burned by CloneDVD2, did not produce the problem, and played fine, but any DVD-R disc burned by CloneDVD2 would not play, even discs with excellent burn quality, including jitter and beta, and even using the latest version of CloneDVD2, released today.

I then used CloneDVD2's "Write Existing Data" option to burn a disc image created by DVD-Rebuilder. This disc would not play either, so I now knew that the problem must relate to how CloneDVD2 writes the disc. I would point out that all of these tests were done with the same drive and the same media.

I then used Nero Express to create a DVD-Video disc of the same disc image (same files), again same DVD-R media and drive. This disc, and two others after that, played without problems in the Samsung Home Theater system.

Conclusion, don't count on your library of recorded videos to work with your next DVD player/HTIB'

For more information visit the original forum thread.