JVC LVT0900-003A manual Scms Serial Copy Management System, Hcms High-speed Copy Management System

SCMS (Serial Copy Management System)

The MD recorder integrated to this unit uses the Serial Copy Management System which allows only first-generation digital copies to be made of premastered software (like CDs or prerecorded MDs).

1st Generation 2nd Generation

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CD CD-R/RW

HCMS (High-speed Copy Management System)

Now onto recordable MDs (minidiscs), you can record (copy) sound at a recording speed exceeding the normal speed. This fact requires some restrictions for protecting copyrights.

On this unit, you cannot re-record, at either high speed or normal speed, a song (track) that has been recorded once from a CD at high speed, until 74 minutes elapse after the first recording of the song started.

For example, after having recorded the first song (track) of a CD at high speed, you cannot record it again, at either high speed or normal speed, until 74 minutes elapse after the first recording of that song started.

MD limitations

The MD records data in an original format that differs from that of conventional cassette tapes or DATs. Since there are some limitations with this recording format, the following types of symptoms may occur. These symptoms are not malfunctions.

Symptoms	Cause
“DISC FULL” appears, even though there is still enough	There is a maximum number of tracks which can be
remaining time on an MD.	recorded, regardless of recording time. More than 254
	tracks cannot be recorded on an MD.
“DISC FULL” appears, even though the number of tracks	• Repeating erasure and recording on the same MD
and recording time do not reach the limit.	creates many blank portions sparsely on the MD. When
	recording on such an MD, a track is recorded on these
	blank portions sparsely. If a track is divided and
The JOIN function sometimes does not work.
	recorded into so many portions, “DISC FULL” appears.
	• If a divided portion of less than 8 seconds is made while
	a track is recorded on the MD, that track cannot be
The remaining time on the MD does not increase even
	joined to another track using the JOIN function.
when tracks are erased.
	Furthermore, if that track is erased, the remaining time
	of the MD may not increase exactly by the erased
The sound drops out during fast forward or fast reverse.
	amount.
	• If a track has been divided into many portions while
	being recorded on the MD, sounds will drop out while
	fast forwarding or reversing such an MD.
The amount of recorded time on the MD added to the	You cannot record on a blank portion of less than 12
amount of remaining time is shorter than the MD’s total	seconds (SP mode) on the MD. For this reason, the actual
possible recording time.	recording time of discs may become shorter.

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