Smsung dvd ercorder not reading discs!

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Remove all power and batteries, for 30Min. and that should rest it back to normal.

RE; smasung DC 161(i) pal and possibly other models The reason why there is no disc message when there is definitely a disc is installed is because the disc programming has malfunctioned, Its because of Samsungs poor design, after powering up the camcorder and inserting a disc, the disc will load and a green flashing light appears for a minute or two while loading if the Samsung camcorder is switched off while loading the camcorder will essentailly self destruct and their is no remedy, however that does not mean the Samsung is completely useless,the camcorder can record on a 4 GB SDHC(max 4GB) card using the switch from disc to memory card

what ever size disc your using simply dont record the whole disc, example if you are recording on a 30min dvd-r only record 28mins then finalising will not be a problem.

Windows media player is not the best for playing dvds. You can get other players for free that will support the DVD format much better for you.

Here is one of the better ones. http://www.avsmedia.com/download/AVSDVDPlayer.exe

are u sure about the media type tat is supported in ur cam.

its to the right of the buttons when you open up the screen. pull open the plastic cover

Have you finalised the disc ? Go into the menu and where you format the disc there is an option to finalise. It should then play on your laptop. Hope that helps ;)

I would make sure the computer will recognize the format of the video on the disc. You may be able to google to find some usable video codecs. I like to use VLC media player for this

What a load of rubbish this camcorder is and Samsung customer service is a load of rubbish too.