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Perhaps your Dell DVD player is a DVD-R? There are two basic (and competing) formats for DVD Rs, + and -. Drives that can do both are listed as DVD +-R. The dash in DVD-R is really a minus sign. It's different from DVD+R.
If you have to access the disc on your new machine why not put it into the old one, share the drive and read it over the network?