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Without seeing something firsthand I can guess at a few
possibilities:<br>
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<li>DVD-R vs DVD+R player compatibility: I vaguely remember this
being an issue. There's some detail in <a
href="https://www.bestbuy.com/site/questions/verbatim-16x-dvd-r-discs-50-pack-white/4409505/question/54884ae2-1fb5-3998-8163-54f774f390f8">this
post</a> but I'm sure more can be learned elsewhere.</li>
<li>There's a chance that the media has deteriorated depending on
age and storage conditions.</li>
<li>I believe the discs needed to be "Finalized" before being
readable on a TV DVD player.</li>
<li>Region lock: US is Region 1. I assume that the TV station's
burners specified this but problems could arise if not.<br>
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</ul>
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A PC DVD drive should be able to cut through most of this (as long
as the +/- format is correct.) If you don't have a visible VIDEO_TS
folder then something definitely off. Can you see the burned region
from a visual inspection of the disc? If you have disc burning
software, it might go the extra mile to try to parse data that is on
the disc that Finder/File Explorer would not.<br>
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Handbrake (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://handbrake.fr/">https://handbrake.fr/</a>) reads DVD Video discs and will
also transcode into a video file. It's free and might help you rule
out some of the points above. Hope that helps..<br>
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