Sony DAR-RH7000, DAR-RH1000 Quick Guide to Disc Types, Recordable and playable discs

Quick Guide to Disc Types

Recordable and playable discs

				Icon used	Formatting	Compatibility with other
Type			Disc logo in this
					(new discs)	DVD players (finalizing)
				manual
Hard disk					(Formatting	Dub HDD contents to a DVD to
drive				HDD
					unnecessary)	play on other DVD players
(internal)
DVD+RW					Automatically	Playable on DVD+RW
				+RW	formatted in +VR	compatible players
					mode	(automatically finalized)
	VR				Format in VR mode	Playable only on VR mode
				-RWVR		compatible players (finalization
	mode				(page 36)
						unnecessary)
DVD-		*2
RW	Video				Format in Video mode	Playable on most DVD players
				-RWVideo		(finalization necessary)
	mode				(page 36)
						(page 46)

DVD+R

Automatically

Playable on most DVD players

+R(finalization necessary) formatted

(page 46)

DVD+R DL

DVD-R		Automatically	Playable on most DVD players
	-R		(finalization necessary)
		formatted
			(page 46)

Usable disc versions (as of March 2005)

•8x-speed or slower DVD+RWs

•6x-speed or slower DVD-RWs (Ver.1.1, Ver.1.2 with CPRM*1)

•16x-speed or slower DVD+Rs

•16x-speed or slower DVD-Rs (Ver.2.0, Ver.2.1)

•2.4x-speed DVD+R DL (Double Layer) discs

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

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

*2 This logo applies to 4x and 6x speed DVD-RW discs.

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