Playing burnt DVDs

I've been reading in the forums that burnt DVDs cannot be read on the Macbook. So does that mean that if you burn a DVD (or cd) using the MB superdrive you can't play it on the notebook itself? That's seems weird!

Only certain burnt DVDs cannot be played on the Macbook. For example, The DVDs burnt from my PC cannot be read by the macbook, but i can play all other burnt DVDs, either borrowed from my friends, family etc. Having that said, CDs/DVDs burnt from your macbook will be fine. Hope this helps

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    I have been suggested trying DVD-Rs instead of DVD-RWs, but I don't think this solves the problem, I wanna be able to play RWs too if they work fine on my iMac G4.
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