Cant burn dvds on a s1-xp

[cliffski]

am i right in thinking you cant search these forums? jesus...

anyway got an s1xp, plays DVDs fine. but wont burn one, says i havent inserted a disk.
I got a DVD+RW disk from the supermarket. maxell 1-4X speed.
any ideas?
its a rewriteable single sided disk.
Thanks/.

And pelase can we junk these pathetic forums and use phpbb like most sane people? or vbulletin?

[robpaxton]

You are using the wrong type of disk - you need DVD-R or DVD-RW according to the specs at Vaio-Link.

You can search the forum by using the link in my signature. The search is still in beta and the link has yet to be added to the forum menus.

[kee-lo_]

It's in mine too

[cliffski]

thanks for the help. so i take it there are 2 formats and not all disks can be used? I read some stuff in the faq here about not supporting writing Cds/DVDs over 700MB. surley that doesnt apply to a DVD?

[kee-lo_]

That only applies to CD.

DVD can go up to 4.7GB.
There are now 3 types of DVD; they are DVD+R, DVD-R and DVD-RAM, of course the first two have RW types.

[feederfan]

And DVD+RDL, of course:smileygrin:, they r expensive, dont buy one, cuz your laptop wont be able to write them unless its a dual layer writer.

[kee-lo_]

Its a bit of a joke RDL, it's not worth doing at the moment until they knock down the prices of the media.

A pack of ten is the same price as the original drive !