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Troubleshooting > Messages and Troubleshooting
Note:
The listed messages are subject to change without notice for improvement of performance.
Message
Cause/condition for
message to appear
Troubleshooting
There was no scene which
can be deleted.
Appears when only multiple locked
scenes were selected using the Disc
Navigation function, and deleting them
was attempted.
Use the Disc Navigation function to
unlock the scenes, and then restart
operation.
This disc cannot be used.
Please replace disc.
Appears when a type of disc that cannot
be used on the DVD video camera/
recorder was loaded.
Check the type of disc and insert a
disc usable on the DVD video
camera/recorder.
This disc is
fi
nalized.
Finalize is not required.
Appears when the FINALIZE button
was pressed with a
fi
nalized DVD-RW
(VF-mode)/DVD-R/+RW used.
The disc does not need to be
fi
nalized:
Wait until the message disappears.
This disc is recorded by the
PAL system.
Please replace disc.
Appears when a disc recorded in the
PAL system was loaded: This DVD video
camera/recorder is exclusively for the
NTSC system and does not comply with
the PAL system.
Use a disc recorded in the NTSC
system.
UNFORMAT DISC
Appears when an unformatted or
logically damaged disc was loaded.
Format the disc (deleting all recorded
data), or replace the disc.
Also appears when a dirty disc was
loaded.
Refer to “4-3-5 Cleaning disc and
optical pickup” and clean the disc.
Or replace the disc.
Use AC adapter/charger.
Appears if a battery is used when
fi
nalizing a DVD-RW/DVD-R/+RW. The
speci
fi
cations state that DVD-RW/DVD-
R/+RW can be
fi
nalized only when the
AC adapter/charger powers the DVD
video camera/recorder.
Terminate the Disc Navigation
function, set the power switch to
“OFF” with the disc loaded, remove
the battery, and then connect the AC
adapter/charger: Finalize the disc
again.
Use AC adapter/charger.
Turn off power.
Appears if a battery is used when
repairing video
fi
les. The speci
fi
cations
state that video
fi
les can be repaired only
when the AC adapter/charger powers the
DVD video camera/recorder.
Set the power switch to “OFF” with
the disc loaded, remove the battery,
and then connect the AC adapter/
charger.
[Refer to *3 page 4-5]
Write protected.
Check card.
Appears when an SD memory card
whose erasure prevention switch was
locked is loaded.
Unlock the erasure prevention switch
of SD memory card.
Write protected.
Check disc.
Appears if a disc that was write-
protected for disc units by software
disc-protect function is loaded, or if an
attempt is made to record on write-
protected disc.
Release the software disc-protect.
