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About DVD recording

Notes:
•This Recorder cannot record CD-R or CD-RW
discs.
•Fingerprints and small scratches on a disc can
affect playback and/or recording performance.
Please take proper care of your discs.
•The company does not hold any responsibility to
compensate the contents which should have been
recorded, and any losses or damages (e.g. losses
of business profit, or business intermission) that
may arise from malfunction of this recorder (not
recording/editing as intended).

Disc types and recording formats, modes,

and settings

This recorder can play many different kinds of DVD
discs: pre-recorded DVD-Video discs, DVD-RW,
DVD-R, DVD+RW and DVD+R(DL) discs. The disc
format for DVD-R, DVD+R(DL), DVD+RW discs is
always “Video format”—the same as pre-recorded
DVD-Video discs. This means that once finalized, you
can play a DVD-R, DVD+R, or DVD+RW in a regular
DVD player.
The DVD-RW disc format is Video Recording (VR)
format or Video format. You can change Recording
format, if required. (Reinitializing the disc will erase
the contents of the disc.)
The recording mode is closely related to the disc
format. If the disc format is Video Recording format,
then the recording mode is VR mode; if the disc
format is Video format, then the recording mode is
Video mode (except for DVD-Video, which is not
recordable, and so does not have a recording mode).
These can be changed as required for each recording
and determine the picture quality and how much
space the recording will take up on the disc.

Notes for recording

•The recording times shown are not exact because
the recorder uses variable bit-rate video compres-
sion. This means that the exact recording time will
depend on the material being recorded.
•When recording a TV broadcast, if the reception
is poor or the picture contains interference, the
recording times may be shorter.
•If you record still pictures or audio only, the
recording time may be longer.
•The displayed times for recording and time
remaining may not always add up to exactly the
length of the disc.
•The recording time available may decrease if you
heavily edit a disc.
•If using a DVD-RW disc, make sure you change
the recording format (Video mode or VR mode)
before you record anything on the disc. See page
25 (Initialize) for how to do this.
•When using a DVD-R or DVD+R disc, you can
keep recording until the disc is full, or until you
finalize the disc. Before you start a recording
session, check the amount of recording time left
on the disc.
•When using a DVD-RW disc in Video mode,
recording time available will only increase if you
erase the last title recorded on the disc.
•The Delete Title option in the Title List (Original)
menu only hides the title, it does not actually
erase the title from the disc and increase the
recording time available (except for the last
recorded title on a DVD-RW disc in Video mode).
•Overwrite recording is available using DVD+RW
discs.
•When using a DVD+R/RW, the recorder will exe-
cute the Menu-making operation to update the
new title and editing when removing the disc from
the recorder.
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