PS3 - why won't it play DVD-RW?

[Legend83]

My father-in-law keeps recording TV programmes for us as I have niot got round to buying PlayTV yet. He uses Panasonic DVD-RWs so that he can re-record over them.

When I put them in the PS3 it makes a funny noise as if it is trying to read the disc but then nothing happens?

Is this a fault or do they just not play these type of discs?

[franv8]

If it's recorded on an HDD based DVD recorder (tuner box undder the TV thingy) then I've found playback in computer based DVD players can be flakey, if it's a data disc burnt onto the DVD, I'd be surprised if it doesn't work.

I ahve to confess to being a little sceptical of optical recording technologies, I've tended to find them the least relaible storage media, and there does still seem to be a some players like them, some don't etc.

[Legend83]

franv8 said:

If it's recorded on an HDD based DVD recorder (tuner box undder the TV thingy) then I've found playback in computer based DVD players can be flakey, if it's a data disc burnt onto the DVD, I'd be surprised if it doesn't work.

I ahve to confess to being a little sceptical of optical recording technologies, I've tended to find them the least relaible storage media, and there does still seem to be a some players like them, some don't etc.

I think it is an older system than that - I think it is just a DVD player which can record to disc, no HDD in place.