The burner is the
Sony DVD+RW/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD-R/CD+RW/CD-RW
DRU-500A

So you think the problem is the DVD+RW disks that I am using, I should use DVD-RW?? Thanks for the help yall.

No not your dvd burner, your dvd player, the Sanyo, what it the model? V4 ps2's rarely play +r/+rw media.

Oh sorry... the dvd player is a Sanyo vwm-400

You sure? I looked it up and it says that model is a vcr! Do you have AOL Instant Messanger? If so IM me at FileForumsGod.

LOL...sorry about that. I was looking at the box for the VCR. My wife has all kinds of electronic boxes...lol. I am still trying to find the box that the dvd player came in. For some reason, the modle is not on the dvd payer itself.

If it is not on the front of the player it has to be on the back.

The DVD player is the Sanyo DWM 380

+r/+rw support for your player is unknown but it does support dvd-r.

According the Walmart your player supports DVD-R, MP3, CD-R, and CD-RW

I got me a couple of DVD-RW (Verbatim). I copied a dvd, placed it in the dvd player it said "reading", then it showed the play symbol, but it wouldn't start the move. It just saied at the Sanyo screen.
I copied it using:
Standard (ISO/UDF)
External Nero

Supposedly your Sanyo doesn't support dvd-rw. Try a dvd-r.

this may be a stupid question, but what is the difference in DVD-R and DVD-RW? I thought that the only diffence was, that with the -RW you could rewrite over data. As you can tell, I am pretty new with media. thanks for all your patience.

That basically is the only difference. But many devices that support dvd-r don't support dvd-rw. It is like cd-r and cd-rw, tons of things play cd-r but don't support cd-rw.

Thanks for the all the help, I guess tomorrow when I get off work, I will be going to get myself some DVD-Rs.

No prob. :) If possible get Verbatim. They usualy cost a little more but if Verbatim doesn't work most likely nothing will.