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Why did they stop producing/selling DVD recorders with built in hard drives?

Do you feel it is right for a school to loose its extracurricular activities and "nonessential" classes to focus on mathematics and reading because they're not meeting Annual Yearly Progress (AYP)?

Some details on AYP. Hawaii schools administer the Hawaii State Assessment (HSA) annually. The HSA measures the students’ proficiency in reading and math. A school needs to have a certain percentage of its students meeting proficiency or the school fails AYP. If a school fails AYP for some consecutive years, the school goes into restructuring where the school is mandated to focus on reading and math. All other "nonessential" activities are cut from the curriculum. This would include but not limited to field trips, assemblies, band, art, P.E. etc. All of this is in part of the "No Child Left Behind" federal mandate.

Anyone having problems with these two formats of recordable DVDs?

Last year I burnt some Dual Layer DVDs and some Lightscribe DVDs. I finalized the discs, tested them and they worked fine. I could play the DVDs in couple of stand alone DVD players.

Now I tried playing these discs in the same players and they won't work. I played them in the original ROM that burnt them and the discs can't be recognized. All my regular DVD-R and DVD+R works fine, even DVD+RW gives me no problems.

So I lost some video that was stored on the Dual Layer and Lightscribe because I can't get it to play. I used Mad Dog Lightscribe DVD Recorder, HP Lightscribe DVD-R and Memorex DVD+DL.

Any reason why the disc, after a year, don't work?