Data DVD not recognised

I burnt my images on my old PC on a DVD, marking it as a data DVD and making it presumably compatible with other systems. It can be read by other PC's, but not by my new MacBook. It marks it as an unburnt CD!!
It reads CDs & DVDs just fine.
Please, if you have any ideas...
MacBook Pro 15" @2.1GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Sonic is the name of the company (they bought Roxio), not the application. But anyway, I have Sonic DigitalMedia Plus on my Dell and I see an option to burn as Data > "Direct to disc" which would indicate it is probably using packet writing (similar to writing to a floppy or DVD-RAM), then they have the option to click "Make compatible" in order to share the disc. Maybe you didn't click that? If your other PC's also have the same burning software, they would be able to read it even without making it "compatible". Or make sure you are clicking on "Data Disc" instead when creating new discs.
Let me know how you made out.

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