Movie in idvd won't play on windows pc

I make lot's of movies with imovie and burn them in idvd. My mac and other dvd players play the movies just fine. However, the windows pc of my co-workjers do not play the movies. Any suggestions for me ? They want to bash Macintosh because I am the Only mac user--I won't give in--but this scenario isn't helping me defend my mac. I hope someone can help me -so I can keep my mac--thanks for any advice!

In this forum some months ago, it was claimed that PC/windows error correction software wasn't very effective. One suggestion is to try the oft-recommended solution to reduce burning errors by using high quality media (Vebatim is a favorite around here; I like Sony on sale) and to burn the DVDs from disk images so you can reduce the burn speed to 1x or 2x with Roxio Toast or Disk Utility.
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