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I recently purchased what looked like the same TDK DVD-RW disks I had been using, but my Mac was unable to write to them. I then noticed that the only distinction between the old and new ones is this "RW2" mark. TDK's website does not say anything about this RW2 feature and lists my Mac as capable of writing to their current media. I could not find much on the internet about what RW2 means, but wikipedia says that it's a newer format introduced in 2007. I wonder why neither Apple nor TDK does not say that late 2006 MacBook Pro is incompatible? The disk utility also says the Mac can write to this newer disks (but in fact can't!) Did anyone else noticed this problem with DVD-RW RW2 disks?

Formatting the disks with all zeros had no effect. It took about 20 minutes, and it burned the disk, and it still won't play in the computer/xbox/dvd player.
Maybe I should get a pack of different disks?
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