DVD-R's burned on my pc won't play on my Macbook Air

Ok, i'm new to mac, here we go. I bought a Macbook Air 2011. its running lion. I have a liteon external dvd burner eTAU208. The burner is recongized, it will burn a new disk. any DVD disk, data or movie will not be playable on my mac. the dvd icon will not appear on the desktop. i have an older burner, i mean older too. i works fine, reads and writes, with it the icon appears on the desktop. my research showed that the liteon burner was mac compatable. are dvds burned on a pc not readable on a mac? If so is there a work around. I have a lot of data i've burned to disk. I have to be able to access it. If anybody has any ideas it would be appreciated. thanx

When you burned the disk, did you also "finalize" the disk, using the software that was used to copy the files? If not, then the disk will be only readable by on OS running the driver for that software. Once finalized, it can be read by near any computer.
Also make sure that Finder's preferences are set to display DVD's on the desktop.
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