Burned DVDs Unable to Play

Just before Christmas I received a call from the grandson of a lady for whom I did a video. He said the DVD would not play in his DVD player and when he took it to a video production place they told him it was blank. (nitwits. . .it’s not blank) Originally I burned two DVDs of the video using iDVD 4. Later the woman requested three more copies which I did. I asked that he return one of the original DVDs (he said those played without problem) and the DVD that would not play.
This is what happened. I have three DVD players: an old one, a new one and a portable one. Both DVDs played without problem in the new one. Neither DVD played in the old one. The original DVD played fine in the portable, the DVD I burned later would not play in the portable.
I tested all three DVD players by playing a different DVD video I made a month or two before the one for this lady.. . . . . . .same equipment (FCX, LaCie external HD, etc), same brand disks, same everything. It played on all three just fine. In fact, I have never encountered this before except once when the people had an ancient DVD player.
I searched the iDVD site for an answer but there was nothing definitive. One person observed that “as DVD buner write speeds have increased, compatability problems with consumer DVD players has increased. . . .”
Has anyone else had this happen?
Lee

I’ve been on the iDVD support group (and related sites) for the past several days. I thought just getting quality disks would fix the problem. It didn't work and if I understand correctly, I cannot change the burn speed.
I got some Memorex Printable DVD-R 16x disks. I found I had archived my 11 minute project on DV tape so I was able to feed it into FCX and create a completely new iDVD project.
I burned the iDVD project using the Memorex disk. It failed. The message read:
"The recording device reported the media error: L-EC uncorrectable error. (0x11, 0x05)"
I went into the console log via the System Profiler. Found this info regarding the failed burn:
iDVD: Burning to PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104 A227 via ATAP1.
iDVD: Requested burn speed was max, actual burn speed is 7x.
iDVD: Burn started, Mon Jan 30 23:47:28 2006
iDVD: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
iDVD: Write (10), block: 800, count:32 ->3/11/05 Medium Error, L-EC uncorrectable error
iDVD: Burn failed, Mon Jan 30 23:47:56 2006
iDVD: Burn sense: 3/11/05 Medium Error, L-EC uncorrectable error
iDVD: Burn error: 0x80020060 The device drained its butter without burn underrun protection.
It's mostly Greek to me except that the burn failed. (That it did!)
Then I burned the same iDVD project to a K-Hypermedia DVD-R 4x disk. Have used these disks in the past with no problem at all, but they are not printable labels. It burned without problem, plays fine on the iMac and three other DVD players. The following is the information on the console log about this successful burn:
DVD: Burning to PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104 A227 via ATAPI.
iDVD: Requested burn speed was max, actual burn speed is 7x.
iDVD: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
iDVD: Burn finished, Thur Feb 2 13:09:46 2006
My goal here is to be able to burn to disks with printable labels. I’ve ordered some Verbatim DVD-R printable 4x disks.
Could the 16x on the Memorex have caused the fail?
Lee

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