New CD's Old Players

"jlctex" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1471e01c444fd$8fd0ffb0$a601280a@phx.gbl...

> Are there setting I can change so that my newly burned
> CD's will play on older players?

No.

If they're NOT CR-R or CD-RW compatible you're stuffed ! This will happen to
older hifi's and older car CD players. Check the docs that came with the
unit.

Cheers,
Jerry

well I have this problem too, sort of. I got the windows update for the hig-mat cd burning and now my cd's wont play in my cd player. they played before, now they dont. i unistalled the update, but they still dont play. any help?

note: my cd player is cd-r, cd-rw compatible

I just heard from a friend that sometimes different cd player lasers are not sensitive to some blank cd brands. I have an old memorex cd burned with my pc, and that works fine in my cd player. I was attempting to burn with a verbatim, and it will not play in my cd player. If this is the reason, then maybe I should not be angry with Microsoft, but rather with blank cd manufacturers for not establishing a universal format. Compatability SUCKS!!