9
Quick Guide to Disc Types
Recordable and playable discs
Type
Disc Logo
Icon used
in this
manual
Formatting
(new discs)
Compatibility with other
DVD players (finalising)
Hard disk
drive
(internal)
VR
mode
Select “Video Mode
Off” in “HDD
Recording Format”
(page 120)
Dub HDD contents to a
DVD (VR mode) to play
on other DVD players
Video
mode
Select “Video Mode
On” (default) in
“HDD Recording
Format” (page 120)
Dub HDD contents to a
DVD (Video mode) to play
on other DVD players
DVD+RW
Automatically
formatted in +VR
mode (DVD+RW
VIDEO)
Playable on DVD+RW
compatible players
(automatically finalised)
DVD-RW
VR
mode
Format in VR mode
(page 31)
Playable only on VR mode
compatible players
(finalisation unnecessary)
Video
mode
Format in Video
mode
Playable on most DVD
players (finalisation
necessary) (page 40)
DVD+R
Automatically
formatted in +VR
mode (DVD+R
VIDEO)
Playable on most DVD
players (finalisation
necessary) (page 40)
DVD+R DL
DVD-R
VR
mode
Format in VR mode
(page 31)
Formatting is
performed in the
“Format” setup
(page 42).
Playable only on DVD-R
in VR mode compatible
players (finalisation
necessary) (page 40)
DVD-R
DL
Video
mode
Automatically
formatted in Video
mode
Playable on most DVD
players (finalisation
necessary) (page 40)
HDD
+
RW
-RW
VR
-RW
Video
+
R
-R
VR
-R
Video
,
continued