Need tech help... any computer people around?

[dzrose93]

I'm having trouble with my wedding DVDs. The guy who filmed my wedding and reception did all of the editing on his Mac computer. Then he burned one DVD for the wedding and another for the reception (both on his mac) and sent them to me.

The first time he mailed the DVDs to me, they were the DVD-R discs. They wouldn't work on my 2-year-old Philips DVD player, and they wouldn't work on my parents' brand new Pioneer DVD player that they got for Christmas. They'd start to play fine, then they'd start pixellating, and finally they'd freeze.

So, the guy burned the DVDs again, this time using DVD+R discs because the box that my parents' player came in said that it could read DVD+R. We thought that might have been the problem.

However, we tried the new DVD+R discs over the weekend on both DVD players and again, they don't work. Same exact problem as before -- at first, they work fine, then they start pixellating and finally they freeze up entirely.

The guy says that he doesn't know what's causing the problem, because the DVDs work fine on his DVD player. He also tried it on a couple of other players, and the DVDs were fine there, too. He doesn't know what else to do at this point.

Anyone have any idea what's going on? I think the problem might be that he edited on a mac computer instead of a pc. He burned the first DVD-R discs on his mac, and then burned the DVD+R discs on a PC. However, we get the same result from both sets of discs.

I'm open to any ideas. At this point, he's offering VHS tapes, but I really don't want them because the quality isn't as good and they don't last as long as DVDs. So any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks!