Pioneer DVR-310, DVR-330-S, DVR-7000 manual Initializing a recordable DVD disc

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•You can’t cancel the finalization of a VR mode DVD-R disc.

•How long finalization takes depends on the type of disc, how much is recorded on the disc and the number of titles on the disc. A disc recorded in VR mode can take up to one hour to finalize. A disc recorded in Video mode can take up to 20 minutes.

Note

•If the TV line system of the disc is different to the current setting of the recorder, you will not be able to finalize the disc. See Additional information about the TV system settings on page 74 for how to change the recorder’s setting.

Initializing a recordable DVD disc

When you first load a blank disc, the recorder will initialize it automatically for recording. You can also manually initialize discs for either Video mode recording

or VR mode recording.1

By default, the recorder initializes blank DVD-RW discs for VR mode recording. See DVD-RW Auto Init. on page 72 if you want to change the default to Video mode.

DVD-R discs are ready for Video mode recordings out of the box; if you want to use a DVD-R for VR mode recording, you must do it before recording anything else on the disc.

Important

•Initializing a DVD-RW disc will erase everything recorded on it. Make sure there is nothing on the disc that you want to keep!

•You may not be able to re-initialize a DVD-RW disc in a different format if it was originally initialized on an older DVD recorder.

•Once initialized for VR mode recording, you can’t re- initialize a DVD-R back to Video mode.

1Press HOME MENU and select ‘Disc Setup’.

2Select ‘Initialize’

Disc Setup
Basic	VR Mode	Start
Initialize	Video Mode	Start
Finalize

3Select ‘Video Mode’ or ‘VR Mode’ from the initialize options.

4Select ‘Start’.

It takes about 30 seconds to initialize the disc.

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Note

1.If a disc was previously finalized on an older DVD recorder, you may not be able to re-initialize and/or initialize it for Video mode recording.

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