Hi,

I've bought a Thompson DTH 4000 DVD-Player and it doesn't play any CD-R or CD-RW Audio- or VCDs.

I heard that this player can't play any CD-R's or CD-RW's. Is that right?

And when it's right - are there any possibilities to make this player compatible to CD-R's or are there any brands of CD-R's this player reads?

Please help me!! :-(

Thanks!!

David

-- David Eilers (davideilers@web.de), June 04, 2002

Answers

I've said somewhere trying to find a certain CD-R type/brand that an ill-designed DVD player (which officially does not recognize the same) will play is like trying to cut off a toe so the foot fits a certain shoe. Sooner or later u graduate to ditching that player anyway and getting something in its place that will REALLY read CD- R/RWs without further ado. So, heed what those that have come out from the thicket have to say: put that player aside and get something that will officially read CD-R/RWs. Let the horse be in front of the carriage instead of the other way around. Actually, nowadays it's difficult to ACTUALLY find latest-gen DVD players that WILL NOT read CD-R/RW.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), June 04, 2002.

Thanks for your warm words but you doesn't really helped me. Only helping postings please.

-- David Eilers (davideilers@web.de), June 04, 2002.

Sorry about that; maybe this will help: that player WILL NOT read CD- R/RW. STOP trying to find out which such CD-R/RW media it will take BECAUSE THERE IS practically NONE. Someone might tell u try Princo, Ritek, yada-yada but that is if you're lucky that particular batch doesn't run out because when it does the next WILL NOT be read by your player and you are back to square one tearing your hair out. We've been there and back. There's simply NO value to wasting time and resources trying to find media for a player that simply WAS NOT designed to accept them. There are $150 Philips DVD players that will read all that u want, u know. I daresay your manhours is more expensive than that.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), June 05, 2002.

Mehmet's answer is correct. Essentially you can try every brand of CD-R/W there is in the hopes that you might find one that works and you may not ever find one that works. Some DVD players won't play any brand of CD-R or CD-RW disc and there's nothing you can do about it but get another player. Most of the people in this forum live in the US, so you're not likely to get a lot of help here on which media might work. I've never heard of your DVD player, but then again, I don't live in Germany. If anything is going to work it's usually CD-RW, so you might try a few brands of CD-RW discs if you're unwilling to consider buying another DVD player.

-- Root (Root@yahoo.com), June 05, 2002.