Dvd/vhs recorder?

Question

I have a dvd player/ recorder and its pretty old and we havn't used it in a while but, i decided to use it again so I put in a dvd and it didn't work so i cleaned the laser and got most of the dust out , so that fixed it i thought. when we first got it we could record tv shows with a dvd-rw 2x 4.7gb and that worked great so i whent and bought the same disk as we used to use than when i put in a recordable dvd it said somthing like can't record on this disk please eject than it had a bunch of numbers at the bottom of the screen is there another type of disk i could use ? idk please help

Answer 1

Since your player is old it is most like to do with the speed.  I don't know what it's called but on disks they say like 16x for example. Your player may only do up to like 4x or 8x.  Call the manufacturer and ask if they have updates available.  I had the same problem and they sent me a disk which fixed it.