How to copy a TV programme DVD RW?

[Peter McL]

I solved the 'computer won't read DVD+RWs I record from the TV' problem by downloading a copy of PowerDVD SE (advertised in Media Player as a Plug-in). It cost $14.95 and seems to have fixed problems, including 'no sound'! Except... (why is there always an 'except'?) disks I've recorded won't play in my Hitachi reader, only in the Sony Writer. So I can't copy disk to disk, in Clone DVD I have to copy from Writer to Image file then from Image file back to a blank in the writer. Any ideas on that?

Peter