Home Theater Forum - View Single Post - Transferred home videos to DVD and they won't play on my laptop

Jon_Are · 05-15-2008, 01:00 PM

I bought a stand-alone VHS/DVD recorder combo for the purpose of transferring old home videos to DVD. The process was easy enough, and the discs play fine on the (same) DVD player.

When I insert a disc into my laptop drive, though, it asks me what I want to do with this blank disc. A look at the E drive shows, of course, no data on the disc.

Is there a way to overcome this? I guess I don't need to watch them on my laptop; I'm mostly just confused as to why this is happening.

Thanks,

Jon

05-15-2008, 01:00 PM	#1 of 5
Jon_Are Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Local Time: 08:13 AM Local Date: 11-18-2008 Posts: 2,024	Transferred home videos to DVD and they won't play on my laptop I bought a stand-alone VHS/DVD recorder combo for the purpose of transferring old home videos to DVD. The process was easy enough, and the discs play fine on the (same) DVD player. When I insert a disc into my laptop drive, though, it asks me what I want to do with this blank disc. A look at the E drive shows, of course, no data on the disc. Is there a way to overcome this? I guess I don't need to watch them on my laptop; I'm mostly just confused as to why this is happening. Thanks, Jon