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Before You Start
About CD, CD–R and CD–RW Discs
The PDR–19RW is compatible with three different types
of compact disc:
Playback-only CDs
This unit will playback any ordinary audio
CD
s carrying the Compact Disc Digital Audio
mark shown right.
CD-Recordable discs
Recordable
CD
s, or
CD
-
R
, carry the mark
shown right, and are 'write once'. This
means that having recorded something on
the disc it is permanent — it can't be
re-recorded or erased. Pioneer markets the
following
CD
-
R
blank discs:
RDD-60A
(5.25 in/12 cm, 60 min.)
RDD-74A
and
RDD-74B
(5.25 in/12 cm, 74 min.)
CD-Rewritable discs
Rewritable
CD
s, or
CD
-
RW
, carry the mark
shown right. As the name indicates, you can
erase and re-record material on these discs
so that they can be used over and over
again. Pioneer markets the following
CD
-
RW
blank discs:
RDW-74
(5.25 in/12 cm, 74 min.)
Consumer-use discs
The PDR–19RW is only compatible with special consumer-
use
CD
–
R
and
CD
–
RW
discs. These are clearly marked
For
Music Use Only, For Consumer
, or
For Consumer Use
.
Other types of
CD
–
R
or
CD
–
RW
discs, such as those
available for computer-based
CD
recorders, will not work
with this recorder.
Recording copyright material
The price of a consumer-use disc includes a copyright fee
that has been paid to the copyright owner (in countries
where the copyright fee collection system has been
established based on their respective copyright laws). This
means that you can use these discs to record music and
other material for your personal use. If you want to use a
disc for anything other than personal use, you must get
permission from the copyright owner (note that copyright
laws vary from country to country; check the copyright-
related laws in your particular country for more information).
Broadcast programs,
CD
s, other recorded media (cas-
settes, vinyl records, etc.) and musical performances are
all protected by copyright laws. You must get permission
from the copyright owner if you sell, transfer, distribute or
lease a disc recorded from the above mentioned sources,
or if you use it as part of a business (such as for back-
ground music in your store).
Recording and finalizing discs
Unlike other recording media, recordable
CD
s have a
number of distinct states, and what you can do with a disc
depends on the current state of the disc. The figure below
shows the three states — blank, partially recorded, and
finalized —and summarizes what’s possible (
✔
) and
impossible (
✘
) in each.
The process of finalization fixes the contents of a
CD
–
R
in
place for good by creating a Table of Contents (
TOC
, for
short) at the beginning of the disc which tells other players
exactly what's on the disc and where to find it. Once a
CD
–
R
is finalized, further recording and other changes become
impossible. The
CD
recorder and other
CD
players treat a
finalized disc as an ordinary playback-only
CD
. (See page
33 for more information on finalizing
CD
-recordable discs.)
CD
-rewritable discs can be finalized in the same way as
CD
–
R
discs, but even after finalization, the disc can still be
erased and used over again. Remember that
CD
–
RW
discs
can only be played on players that are specifically de-
signed to play
CD
–
RW
discs: most home
CD
players will
not play these discs, even after the disc been finalized.
(See page 33 for more information on finalizing
CD
-
rewritable discs.)
* Once the
CD
–
RW
has been erased, it becomes recordable again
and skip
ID
s can be set and cleared.
** In general, current
CD
players cannot play
CD
–
RW
discs.
However, this situation may change.
CD-R
CD-R
CD
CD-RW
FINALIZE
CD-RW
CD-RW
✔
Recordable
✘
Erasable
✘
Skip ID set/clear
✘
Playable in ordinary
CD player
✔
Recordable
✘
Erasable
✔
Skip ID set/clear
✘
Playable in ordinary
CD player
✘
Recordable
✘
Erasable
✘
Skip ID set/clear
✔
Playable in ordinary
CD player
✔
Recordable
✘
Erasable
✘
Skip ID set/clear
✘
Playable in ordinary
CD player
✔
Recordable
✔
Erasable
✔
Skip ID set/clear
✘
Playable in ordinary
CD player
✘
Recordable*
✔
Erasable
✘
Skip ID set/clear*
✘
Playable in ordinary
CD player**
Recording
Finalization