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MY PIONEER DVD RECORDER WILL NOT RECORD BUT PLAYS

My DVD Recorder wILL NOT RECORD KEEPS SAYING UNSUPORTED DISK TYPE EVEN THOUGH THE DISCS ARE SUPPORTED BY THE RECORDER ON EVERY DISC I PUT IN BUT IT WILL PLAY OK. THIS USED TO WORK FINE UNTILL A FEW WEEKS BACK.

davy22456 Dec 16, 2008

Yes I tride cleaning but as not made any diference. I put the wrong name of the recorder it is a Panasonic and not a pioneer, it is suposed to write on DVD Ram DVD-R AND RW and DVD +R but I have discovered that it will record on DVD-R and +R only and will not record on DVD Ram or any RW Discs the recorder keeps saying unsuported media type. But used to work fine up until a month ago.
davy22456 Dec 18, 2008

Yes I tride formating but it just keeps saying error unable to formate.

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Hi have you tried to format the discs this sometimes work check your manual and it should tell you how to format

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