Recorded DVD not recognized in drive

I inserted a recorded DVD (DVD+RW) in my buddy's MacBook running Tiger, and a dialog box says the disc is a blank disc. It isn't, because it plays in other Macs, PC's and DVD players. is there a special setting he should be using to be able to play this DVD?
TIA

Go out and buy an external hard drive known to boot that kind of Mac.
Run the operating system installer that came with the machine and install on that hard drive after formatting it GUID with Disk Utility's Partition section.
After installing the operating system on that drive, select it from Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disc and click on restart.
Insert the dodgy DVD+RW.
If it fails to work, you know the optical drive is the one that won't play those kinds of discs, or it is damaged.

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