The Disc Setup menu
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Chapter 13
The Disc Setup menu
From the Disc Setup menu you can name discs, lock the
contents to prevent accidental recording and erasure,
initialize and finalize discs. The Disc Setup menu is
accessed from the Home menu:
Basic settings
Input Disc Name
When you initialize a disc for recording, the recorder
automatically assigns a name for the disc ranging from
DISC 1
to
DISC 99
. You can use the Input Disc Name
function to change the default disc name to something
more descriptive. This name appears when you load the
disc and when you display disc information on-screen.
1
Select ‘Disc Setup’ from the Home
Menu.
2
Select ‘Basic’ > ‘Input Disc Name’ > ‘Next
Screen’.
3
Input a name for the disc.
The disc name can be up to 64 characters long for a VR
mode disc, or 40 for a Video mode discs and DVD+R/
+RW.
• See
Title Name
on page 99 for more on navigating the
input screen.
Lock Disc
• Default setting:
Off
Locking the disc will prevent accidental recording,
editing or erasing of the disc.
Important
• A locked disc can still be initialized (which will
completely erase the disc).
1
Select ‘Disc Setup’ from the Home
Menu.
2
Select ‘Basic’ > ‘Lock disc’ then ‘On’ or
‘Off’.
Set to
On
to prevent accidental recording, editing or
erasing of the disc loaded. If you need to unlock the disc
to make edits, select
Off
.
Initialize settings
You can initialize a recordable DVD-R/-RW disc for either
VR mode or Video mode recording.
The first time you load a new DVD-RW disc, it will be
automatically initialized for recording according to the
DVD-RW Auto Init. setting in the Initial Setup menu (see
page 132).
New DVD-R discs are ready for Video mode recording
when you load them, but it is also possible to initialize
them for VR mode recording.
1
DVD+RW and DVD-RAM discs can also be initialized as
a way of erasing the entire disc. When initializing a DVD-
RAM disc, select VR mode.
DVD (VR) DVD (Video) DVD+R DVD+RW DVD-RAM
HOME MENU
ENTER
Basic
Initialize
Finalize
Optimize HDD
Disc Setup
Input Disc Name
Lock Disc
Basic
Input Disc Name
Next Screen
Input Disc Name
ENTER
Note
1 Once initialized for VR mode recording it is not possible to re-initialize the disc for Video mode recording. Also, once recorded in Video mode,
the disc cannot be re-initialized for VR mode recording.
DVD (VR) DVD-RAM
HOME MENU
ENTER
Basic
Initialize
Finalize
Optimize HDD
Disc Setup
Input Disc Name
Lock Disc
Basic
On
Off
Lock Disc
DVD-R DVD-RW DVD+RW DVD-RAM
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