Importing photos from DVD burnt using Vista

I was recently in Africa working and I took some photos while traveling and at the time I was using windows so I burnt all the photos I took onto a dvd, but now that I am back in europe I am using my mac again but when I insert the dvd it simply says that the disk is blank even though I can clearly see that it isn't!! Also if I open it in disk utility it says that there is media on the disk. Please can anyone help me retrieve these photos as I do not want to lose them??!!

Obviously the disk is burned in a format that the Finder doesn't understand.
The most simple and inexpnsive solution is to pop the machine into a Friends windows box and copy the pics off there. Or you could purchase Toast
Regards
TD

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