Samsung DVD-VR300 instruction manual Disc Storage, Disc Specifications

Getting Started

DVD-Video, CD

•Wipe off dirt or contamination on the disc with a soft cloth.

Cautions on handling discs

•Do not write on the printed side with a ball-point pen or pencil.

•Do not use record cleaning sprays or antistatic. Also, do not use volatile chemicals, such as benzene or thinner.

•Do not apply labels or stickers to discs. (Do not use discs fixed with exposed tape adhesive or leftover peeled-off stickers.)

•Do not use scratch-proof protectors or covers.

•Do not use discs printed with label printers available on the market.

•Do not load warped or cracked discs.

Disc Storage

Be careful not to harm the disc because the data on these discs is highly vulnerable to the environment.

•Do not keep under direct sunlight.

•Keep in a cool ventilated area.

•Store vertically.

•Keep in a clean protection jacket.

•If you move your DVD Recorder-VCR suddenly from a cold place to a warm place, condensation may gener- ate on the operating parts and lens and cause abnor- mal disc playback. If this occurs, remove the disc and wait for one to two hours with the power on before attempting playback.

Disc Specifications

DVD-Video

•A digital versatile disc (DVD) can contain up to 135- minutes of images, 8-language audio and 32 subtitle languages. It is equipped with MPEG-2 picture com- pression and Dolby 3D surround, allowing you to enjoy vivid and clear theater quality images in the comfort of your own home.

•When switching from the first layer to the second layer of a double-layered DVD Video disc, there may be momentary distortion in the image and sound. This is not a malfunction of the unit.

•Once a DVD-R/RW recorded in Video Mode is final- ized, it becomes DVD-Video.

Audio CD

•An audio disc on which 44.1kHz PCM Audio is recorded.

•Plays CD-DA format audio CD-R and CD-RW discs. This unit may not be able to play some CD-R or CD- RW discs due to the condition of the recording.

CD-R/RW

MP3 CD-R/RW

•Only CD-R discs with MP3 files recorded with ISO9660 or JOLIET format can be played back

•Only MP3 files with the "mp3" or "MP3" extension can be used.

•For MP3 files recorded with a VBR(Variable Bit Rates), from 32 Kbps to 320 Kbps, the sound may cut in out.

•Playable bitrate range is from 56Kbps to 320Kbps.

•The unit can handle a maximum of 1000 files and folders.

JPEG CD-R/RW

•Only JPEG files with the ".jpg", ".JPG" extension can be used.

•The unit can handle a maximum of 1000 files and folders.

•Maximum size of progressive JPEG is 3M pixels.

•MOTION JPEG is not supported.

Using CD-R/RW

•Use a 700MB(80 minutes) CD-R/RW disc.

If possible, do not use a 800MB(90 minutes) or above disc, as the disc may not play back.

•If the CD-R/RW disc was not recorded as a closed ses- sion, you may experience a delay in the early play- back time, and all recorded files may not play.

•Some CD-R/RW discs may not be playable with this unit, depending on the device which was used to burn them.

For contents recorded on CD-R/RW media from CDs for your personal use, playability may vary depending on contents and discs.

DVD-R Disc Playback and Recording

•Once a DVD-RW/-R recorded in Video Mode is final- ized, it becomes DVD-Video.

•You can record onto the available space on the disc and perform editing functions such as giving titles to discs and programs and erasing programs before final- izing.

•When programming is erased from a DVD-R, that space does not become available. Once an area on a DVD-R is recorded on, that area is no longer available for recording, whether the recording is erased or not.

•It takes about 30 seconds for the unit to complete recording management information after recording fin- ishes.

•This product optimizes the DVD-R for each recording. Optimizing is carried out when you start recording after inserting the disc or turn on the unit. Recording onto the disc may become impossible if optimizing is carried out too many times.

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