Quick Guide to Disc Types

Recordable and playable discs

 

 

 

 

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Compatibility with

 

 

 

Discused inFormatting

 

Typeother DVD players

 

Logothis(new discs)

 

 

 

(finalizing)

 

 

 

 

 

manual

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Automatically

Playable on DVD+RW

 

DVD+RW

 

 

+RW

compatible players

 

 

 

formatted

 

 

 

 

 

(automatically finalized)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VR

 

 

 

Automatically

Playable only on VR mode

 

 

 

 

-RWVR

compatible players

 

 

mode

 

 

formatted in VR mode

 

 

 

 

(finalization unnecessary)

 

DVD-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

 

Manually reformat in

Playable on most DVD players

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-RWVideo

(finalization necessary)

 

 

mode

 

 

Video mode (page 31)

 

 

 

 

(page 39)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Automatically

Playable on most DVD+R

DVD+R+Rcompatible players (finalization formatted

necessary) (page 39)

 

 

 

Automatically

Playable on most DVD players

DVD-R

-R

(finalization necessary)

formatted

 

 

(page 39)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Usable disc versions (as of February 2005)

4x-speed or slower DVD+RWs

4x-speed or slower DVD-RWs (Ver.1.1, Ver.1.2 with CPRM*1)

8x-speed or slower DVD+Rs

8x-speed or slower DVD-Rs (Ver.2.0)

“DVD+RW,” “DVD-RW,” “DVD+R,” and “DVD-R,” are trademarks.

*1 CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) is a coding technology that protects copyrights for images.

*2 To free up disc space, erase the last title on the disc. *3 Erasing titles does not free up disc space.

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