Pioneer DVR-310 Disc Setup menu Chapter, Basic settings, Initialize settings

10The Disc Setup menu

Chapter 10

The Disc Setup menu

From the Disc Setup menu you can name discs, lock the contents to prevent accidental recording and erasure, initialize and finalize discs. The Disc Setup menu is accessed from the Home menu:

•Press HOME MENU and select ‘Disc Setup’.

Timer Recording	Disc Setup
Disc History	Initial Setup
PhotoViewer	Video/Audio Adjust
Disc Navigator	Play Mode
DV Record

Basic settings

Input Disc Name

VR mode Video mode

Use this to enter a name for the disc. This name appears when you load the disc and when you display disc information on-screen.

1Select ‘Input Disc Name’ from the Basic options, then ‘Next Screen’.

Disc Setup
Basic	Input Disc Name	Next Screen
Initialize	Lock Disc
Finalize

• Use the	buttons to change the cursor
position.

•Select CAPS or small to change to upper or lower- case, or use the CASE SELECTION buttons (

).

•You can also use the CLEAR button to delete characters directly (press and hold for 2 seconds to delete the whole name). For other remote control key shortcuts, see Using the remote key shortcuts to input a name on page 57.

•For discs formatted on a different DVD recorder, you will see only a limited character set.

Lock Disc

VR mode

• Default setting: Off

Disc Setup
Basic	Input Disc Name	On
Initialize	Lock Disc	Off
Finalize

Set to On to prevent accidental recording, editing or erasing of the disc loaded. If you need to unlock the disc to make edits, select Off.

Important

•A locked disc can still be initialized (which will completely erase the disc).

2Input a name for the disc up to 64 characters long for a VR mode disc, or 32 for a Video mode disc.

Initialize settings

DVD-RW

Input Disc Name

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You can initialize a DVD-RW disc for either VR mode recording or Video mode recording. The first time you load a new DVD-RW disc, it will be automatically initialized for recording according to the DVD-RW Auto Init. setting in the Initial Setup menu (see page 79).

The initialize menu here lets you reinitialize a disc, for example if you want to change the recording format of the disc. See Initializing a DVD-RW disc on page 53 for detailed instructions.

• Use the	(cursor buttons) and ENTER to
select characters.

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