Why are some DVD's "incompatible" with some players?
 

I've had a DVD player for about a year and every once in a while I come across a piece of news that says "X DVD won't play on Y Player".

How exactly is this possible? I mean isn't the player just reading information? What would set one player apart from another if they are both using the same industry standard?

:whofart:

Usually both the DVD player and the DVD are too blame. They both stretch the DVD specs or try and cut a couple of corners. The information on a DVD can be written with a variety of flags and codes that us users never have to worry about. Luckily these errors are fairly rare.