Notes and Restrictions on Importing/Copying

Notes on general importing/copying

Operations may differ depending on the HDD/BD/DVD status. Follow the on-screen messages.

If a message appears indicating that the control information is full, erase the titles on the disc. Importing or copying of heavily edited titles may not be possible. In that case, dividing them may solve the problem.

You cannot import from commercially available BD-ROMs and DVDs to the HDD.Titles longer than eight hours cannot be imported or copied.Titles may not be imported or copied if they are too short.In some cases, titles recorded on the server may not be imported or copied.

When importing to a BD-RE/BD-R/DVD+RW/DVD-RW (Video mode)/DVD+R/DVD-R (Video mode), thumbnails of the source title will not be retained.

Notes on recording modesNote on High-Speed Import/High-Speed Copy

If canceled halfway, the title remains on the HDD, not on the BD. However, the available capacity decreases if a BD-R is used.

Notes on Rec Mode Conversion

Picture quality does not improve even if converted to a recording mode of better picture quality.

Short titles may not be imported or copied properly.Restrictions on importing/copying

The server can perform the following importing/copying, in addition to “Moving” the content.

Commercially available software such as movies cannot be imported to the HDD. Also, importing will pause if the DVD contains copy protection signals.

Copy protectionImporting/Copying, and Moving
signal

 

 

 

‘Copy Free’

n

(copies content)

 

 

 

‘Copy Once’

,

(moves content)(both CPRM compatible)

 

 

Notes on ‘Move’

,

Video titles that contain ‘Copy Once’ signals can only be ‘moved’ from the HDD to a DVD-RW (VR mode) or DVD-RW (VR mode)*. After being moved, the original title in the HDD is erased.

You can move titles in the same way as copying. Check for to see if the title can be moved to DVD-RW (VR mode)/DVD-R (VR mode).The following titles recorded on the HDD cannot be moved:Protected titlesPlaylist titlesOriginal titles referred to by Playlist titlesYou cannot move back titles that have been moved to a BD/ DVD.

If move is canceled, the source title remains in the HDD, and no data will be recorded on the BD/DVD. However, the disc capacity decreases if the disc is a BD-R or a DVD-R (VR

mode).

*CPRM-compatible DVD-RW (VR mode)/DVD-R (VR mode) only. CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) is a coding technology for protecting copyright of moving images.

Notes on disc formatting and finalizing

You cannot re-format a DVD-R in Video mode if it has once been formatted in VR mode.

Depending on the DVD device, discs may not play even if finalized correctly.You cannot finalize a DVD that has been recorded on other devices.To unfinalize a discSome DVD-RWs (VR mode) cannot be unfinalized.You cannot unfinalize if the disc has been finalized on other devices.

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