Pioneer How to Protect Disc and Prevent Erasure on Your DVD Recorder

Various settings

NEW DISC FORMAT

If you insert an unused disc, the disc is automatically formatted.

If you use the DVD-RW (Ver.1.1/1.2), you can select the mode to be used for automatic format.

Select ÒNEW DISC FORMATÓ and select the mode from the list below.

VR: Format the disc in the VR mode.

VIDEO: Format the disc in the Video mode.

When you insert an unused disc, the following message screen will appear.

NEW DISC FORMAT

VIDEO MODE

START CANCEL

¥When you select ÒSTARTÓ and press ENTER, the formatting will start. The screen below will appear.

INITIALIZING DISC

VIDEO MODE

¥When format finished, ÒFORMATTING COMPLETED PRESS ENTERÓ will appear.

Press ENTER, the normal TV screen will appear.

¥When you select ÒCANCELÓ and press ENTER, the normal TV screen will appear.

NOTE:

If a recorded disc has scratches or contamination on it, the ÒNEW DISC FORMATÓ screen may appear.

If this happens, select ÒCANCELÓ.

FINALISE

To play a DVD disc recorded on this unit you must finalise the disc to ensure compatibility with other DVD players. In addition if you are using a DVD-RW disc you must record in Video mode.

When ÒFINALISEÓ is selected, the screen below will appear.

FINALISE

START CANCEL

¥When you select ÒSTARTÓ and press ENTER, finalisation will start. The screen below will appear.

FINALISING

PLEASE WAIT

¥When you select ÒCANCELÓ and press ENTER, the DISC SETUP screen will appear.

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¥During the finalisation the cursor will move repeatedly. When the finalisation finished, ÒFINALISING COMPLETED PRESS ENTERÓ will appear. Press ENTER, the normal TV screen will appear.

¥The finalisation process may require a few minutes to about 1 hour according to disc type or the amount of free space on the disc.

¥You can record or edit a finalised DVD-RW (in VR mode) by cancelling the finalising, but you cannot do these opera- tions with a DVD-RW (Video mode), or with a DVD-R.

¥This unit may not be able to record or edit a disc which was recorded or edited using another DVD recorder.

¥You cannot playback a disc recorded on VR mode on a unit that does not support DVD-RW.

¥Even if you finalise a disc in the Video mode, the disc cannot be played back in some DVD players.

¥A DVD-R disc can not be named after it is finalized.

PROTECT DISC

You can protect a disc to prevent the content recorded on it from being erased, edited or re-recorded.

Only DVD-RW (in VR mode) can be protected.

Select ÒPROTECT DISC (VR ONLY)Ó and select ÒONÓ to protect the disc.

To cancel the disc protection, select ÒOFFÓ.

UNDO FINALISE

You can cancel the finalisation of a finalised DVD-RW (in VR mode).

You cannot cancel the finalisation for discs other than above. You can record or edit on a disc whose finalisation has been cancelled.

Select ÒUNDO FINALISEÓ, and the screen below will appear.

UNDO FINALISE

START CANCEL

¥When you select ÒSTARTÓ and press ENTER, the cancelling finalisation will start. The screen below will appear.

UNFINALISING

PLEASE WAIT

¥When you select ÒCANCELÓ and press ENTER, the DISC SETUP screen will appear.

NOTES:

¥During the cancelling finalisation the cursor will move repeatedly. When the cancelling finalisation finished, ÒUNDO FINALISING COMPLETED PRESS ENTERÓ will appear.

Press ENTER, the normal TV screen will appear.

¥The cancelling finalisation process may require a few minutes to about 1 hour according to disc type or the amount of free space on the disc.

¥When the discÕs finalisation cannot be cancelled, you cannot select ÒUNDO FINALISEÓ.

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