Hitachi DZMV100A DVD Video Recording Standard, Compatible Devices and Future Movement

chapter 1_Before You Begin

DVD Video Recording Standard

This DVD camcorder conforms to the DVD video recording standard. The DVD video recording standard refers to the unified standard for video recording using a rewritable DVD disc such as DVD-RAM, stipulated at the DVD Forum in 1999: Functions such as real-time video writing, additional video writing, editing, etc. have been standard- ized, based on the standard of read-only DVD-Video.

Compatible Devices and Future Movement

Since the DVD-RAM disc used in this DVD camcorder conforms to the newest stan- dards of DVD-RAM Book 2.1 and DVD video recording, it cannot be used with most DVD players and DVD-RAM drives available on the market as of third-quarter 2000. However, some DVD players and some DVD drives to be marketed in the future will comply with playback and reading/writing of discs with these standards.

Available DVD-RAM Discs

There are two types of DVD-RAM disc: for video camera and for PCs. Be sure to use 8 cm DVD-RAM discs (1.4 GB on one side, 2.8 GB on both sides) noted for video camera use (for AV) with this DVD camcorder.

Most discs for video camera use (for AV) can be removed from their cartridges for recording. Some discs for PC, however, cannot be removed from their cartridges, and some can be removed but recording cannot be made on them. For details, read the instruction sheet provided with discs or consult the disc maker.

Examples of discs that cannot be used on this DVD camcorder:

8cm DVD-RAM discs for PC, CD, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, MO, MD, iD, floppy disks, etc.

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