Finished a project, burned a movie, won't open

Hi Forum, I know this is a FCP forum, but this is indirectly involved:
I just finished a project in FCP, and used Compressor and IDVD to make a fine movie that plays great on MY New, fancy Panasonic HDMI DVD player....
However,
It won't play on some of the older players the client tried to look at. Is there any other "encryption" or option I should try? I mean, why does any 7.99 movie on sale from walmart play on the older players, but not my cool, hot-off-the press FCP produced movie?
Thanks
PS...Redirect me as you see fit, I appreciate it!
Mark

OK...well, seems that the "one" disk I made using compressor, works fine (I just got off the phone).
For the other copies, I used a "self-contained" movie, dropped it into TOAST and made the vid, which went to copy....so i'm now assuming that the signal, encoding might have got lost in TOAST or during duplication.
Thanks
M

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