The Initial Setup menu
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En
Lock Disc
• Default setting:
Off
Set to
On
to prevent accidental recording, editing or
erasing of the disc loaded. If you need to unlock the disc
to make edits, select
Off
.
Important
•A locked disc can still be initialized (which will
completely erase the disc).
Initialize
See
Initializing a DVD-RW disc
on page 40 for detailed
instructions on this option.
Finalize
Finalizing ‘fixes’ the recordings in place so that the disc
can be played on a regular DVD player or computer
equipped with a suitable DVD-ROM drive.
See
Playing your recordings on other DVD players
on
page 39 for detailed instructions.
Undo Finalize
You can undo the finalization on Video mode DVD-RW
discs recorded and finalized on this recorder. You need to
do this if you want to record more material or edit
material already on the disc.
If when you load a disc the message
This disc cannot be
recorded. Undo the finalization
is displayed, use this
command to be able to record on the disc using this
recorder.
Select
Finalize
, then
Undo Finalize
Start
from the
finalize options screen.
Pioneer cannot guarantee that undoing the finalization will
work with discs that were finalized on another recorder.
Video In
Color System
• Default setting:
Auto
On the default setting, the recorder automatically detects
whether the video signal from the built-in tuner or from
one of the external inputs is
PAL
or
SECAM
. You may,
however, occasionally need to set it manually if the
picture is not displayed properly.
1 Select ‘Color System’, then press ENTER.
VR mode
Basic
Disc
Video
Audio
Recording
Playback
Lock Disc
Initialize
Finalize
Disc
Lock Disc
Lock Disc
Off
DVD-RW
DVD-RW DVD-R
DVD-RW
Basic
Disc
Video
Audio
Recording
Playback
Video Out
Input Adjust
Video In
Playback Adjust
Video
Color System Preset
Color System
Color System
Pr01
PAL
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