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When burning a DVD of video that you want to play in a regular DVD player, use DVD-R (”dash”) discs! Do not use DVD+R (”plus”) discs! I don’t know enough about the technology to tell you exactly why except to say that I’ve almost always had trouble playing DVD+R’s in regular DVD players and very rarely had the same trouble with DVD-R’s.  Sometimes the DVD+R’s are completely unplayable.  Other times, they just show pixels and play the sound.  Other times they work fine.  Still other times, they work in some DVD players and not others.  To save myself the trouble, I never burn anything (not even data) onto a DVD+R.  I don’t even buy DVD+R’s.  Maybe they are better for some applications than DVD-R’s, but I never found an instance like that in my line of work.