JVC GVT0104-002A SCMS Serial Copy Management System, HCMS High-speedCopy Management System, Cause

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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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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 creates
and recording time do not reach the limit.	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 recorded into so many
	portions, “DISC FULL” appears.
• The JOIN function sometimes does not work.	If a divided portion of less than 8 seconds is made while a
• The remaining time on the MD does not increase even	track is recorded on the MD, that track cannot be joined to
when tracks are erased.	another track using the JOIN function. Furthermore, if that
	track is erased, the remaining time of the MD may not
	increase exactly by the erased amount.
The sound drops out during fast forward or fast reverse.	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 seconds
amount of remaining time is shorter than the MD’s total	(SP mode) on the MD. For this reason, the actual recording
possible recording time.	time of discs may become shorter.

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