Pioneer DVR-920H operating instructions Disc Setup menu Initialize settings, Finalize settings

The Disc Setup menu

Initialize settings

DVD-RW

You can initialize a DVD-RW disc for either VR mode recording or Video mode recording. The first time you load a new DVD-RW disc, it will be automatically initialized for recording according to the DVD-RW Auto Init. setting in the Initial Setup menu (see page 118).

The initialize menu here lets you reinitialize a disc, for example if you want to change the recording format of the disc. See Initializing a DVD-RW disc on page 70 for detailed instructions.

Finalize settings

Finalize

DVD-R DVD-RW

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.1

See Playing your recordings on other DVD players on page 69 for detailed instructions.

Undo Finalize

DVD-RW

You can undo the finalization on DVD-RW discs recorded on this recorder in Video mode. You need to do this if you want to record more material or edit material already on the disc.

You can also undo the finalization of VR mode discs which have been finalized on other DVD recorders. 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.

1From the Disc Setup menu, select ‘Finalize’, then ‘Undo Finalize’ from the finalize options.

2Select ‘Start’.

Optimize HDD

HDD

The Optimize HDD option is only visible when the recorder determines that the HDD needs optimizing (you’ll see a message appear on-screen recommending you optimize the HDD).

As you record, erase and edit recordings, the HDD file system gradually becomes fragmented. Periodically, the HDD will need optimizing to ‘clean up’ all the fragmented files.

Optimizing the HDD can take up to eight hours to complete, and in the meantime no other operation is possible. It is however possible to cancel optimization, should you need to.

•Select ‘Optimize HDD’ from the disc Setup menu.

Disc Setup
Basic	Start Optimization	Start
Initialize
Finalize
Optimize HDD

• Select ‘Start’ to optimize.

A progress bar indicates how long there is left to go.

HDD Initialize

HDD

When your DVD recorder is working without a problem this option is not visible in the Disc Setup menu. However, if the HDD file system becomes corrupted for some reason, you initialize the HDD to fix the problem. Note that initializing the HDD will erase all the data on it.

•Select ‘Initialize HDD’ from the disc Setup menu.

Disc Setup

Basic	Initialize	Start
Initialize

Finalize

Initialize HDD

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• Select ‘Start’ to initialize.

Note

1You cannot finalize a disc or use the Undo Finalize command if the TV line system of the disc is different to the current setting of the recorder. See Input Line System on page 108 for how to change the recorder’s setting.

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