Samsung DVD-R100E/XET, DVD-R100E/XEE Recording Formats, Recording Mode, Unrecordable pictures

Recording Formats

When you insert an unused disc, the following message appears; Since available functions differ depending on the disc type, select a disc that best fits your prefer- ences.

DVD-RAM: Use after formatting the disc.

Unformatted Disc

Do you want to format this disc?

Yes No

DVD-RW: When a blank disc is first inserted, the message “Do you want to initialize this disc?” will appear.

When “Yes” is selected, the mode will be formatted in VR Mode.

Uninitialized Disc

Do you want to initialize this disc?

Yes No

Recording Mode

Select one of four recording modes by pressing the REC MODE button repeatedly while the unit is in Stop mode for the desired recording time and picture quality. In general, picture quality improves as the recording time decreases.

In FR Mode, picture quality is adjusted automatically so that all images for the scheduled time can be recorded onto the free disc space.

Mode	Characteristic	Recording Times
		Data Rates
XP	Select when the	Approx. 1 hour
(high quality mode)	video quality is	about 8 Mbps
	important.
SP	Select to record in	Approx. 2 hours
(standard quality mode)	standard quality.	about 4 Mbps
LP	Select when a long	Approx. 4 hours
	recording time is
(long recording mode)		about 2 Mbps
	required.
EP	Select when a longer	Approx. 6 hours
	recording time is
(extended mode)		about 1.2 Mbps
	required.
FR	for timer recording only	Approx. 1 to 6 hours
(Flexible Recording)	see page 42.	about 1.2 to 8 Mbps

If you want to format in either VR Mode or Video Mode, refer to Formatting a Disc on page 80.

DVD-RW(VR)						Disc Manager
		Disc Name		:				√
								√
								√
	Choose the recording format fot DVD-RW.							√
								√
			DVD-VR		DVD-V
MOVE		OK			RETURN		EXIT

Unrecordable pictures

Pictures with copy protection cannot be recorded on this DVD Recorder.

When the DVD Recorder receives a copy guard signal while recording, recording stops and the following message appears on the screen.

You cannot record copy protected movie.

Recording

DVD-R: Formatting DVD is unnecessary and only Video Mode Recording is supported

DVD-RW( Video mode)/-R

●This mode automatically creates chapters at specified intervals during finalisation.

●Simple editing (erasing titles/changing title name)

DVD-RW(VR mode)/-RAM

●This mode allows multiple editing functions (such as deletion of the whole of a title, partial deletion of a title, etc.)

●Various editing options using a created Playlist

Concerning Copy Control Signals

Broadcasts that contain copy control signals may have one of the following three signal types, COPY-Free, Copy-Once and Copy-Never. If you want to record a copy-once type program, use DVD-RW with CPRM in VR Mode and DVD-RAM.

Media	Signal type	Copy-Free	Copy-Once	Copy-Never
DVD-RW(Ver.1.1)		O	-	-
DVD-RW(Ver.1.1)
with CPRM
VR mode		O	O*	-
Video mode		O	-	-
DVD-R		O	-	-
DVD-RAM(Ver.2.0)		O	O*	-

✻Once “Copy Once” has been recorded, recording cannot be done anymore.

English -35