Burned DVD shows blank

Hi,
I have searched the foruns, but i only found old threads abou this. Most seemed to point to the need of servicing the Superdrive, but i am not sure this is my case.
The problem is: a DVD burned in a PC with JPEGs shows blank in my MacBook Pro. My old MacBook can see files and folders inside, can the PC.
But: i just burned a DVD in my old MacBook, and my MacBook Pro reads it fine.
So, my question would be: could there be a problem with the PC burning? If yes, how come the old MB reads it, but not the new MBP? If the problem is then in the MBP Superdrive, how come it reads the DVD recorded by the old MB?
Thanks a lot.

I asked a similar question to this one, here's my thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=796187&tstart=0
If this is right then we can't burn it to a dvd and play it on our Tv's but we can burn to a DVD and use that as a backup or storage.

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