Trouble playing DVD-R disks in a DVD player

[Hodders]

I have bought a dead cheap Toshiba SD190 DVD player for my Dad with the aim that I will be able to put together home videos of his grand kids and mail them to him.

I burnt a test disk and it played fine on both PCs and a friends DVD player. But it will only play about 1 time in 3 with occasional jumps/skips on the Toshiba.

On the side of the DVD box it says clearly that it supports DVD-R, DVD+R plus formats like divx etc.

Is it worth trying:
1) A different brand of DVD-R
2) DVD+R

Or should I just take it back ?

 

[Vesta_Man]

What DVD+/- R did you use?
Try a Verb or Tayo Yunden disc burnt at a sensible speed (ie 4-8X)
If it can't play that flawlessly then deffo take it back.

 

[Hodders]

Works fine with DVD+R TDK disks