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Recording
About DVD recording
Notes:
This recorder cannot make recordings on CD-R or
CD-RW discs.
Our company takes no responsibility for recording
failure due to power outages, defective discs, or
damage to the Recorder.
Fingerprints and small scratches on a disc can
affect playback and/or recording performance.
Please take proper care of your discs.
Disc types and recording formats, modes,
and settings
This recorder can play various kinds of DVD discs:
pre-recorded DVD-Video discs, DVD-RW,
DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and DVD+R discs. The
disc format for DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW discs is
always “Video format”—the same as pre-recorded
DVD-Video discs. This means that once finalized, you
can play a DVD-R, DVD+R, or DVD+RW in a regular
DVD player. The DVD-RAM disc format is Video
Recording (VR) format.
You can change DVD-RW disc format to Video or
Video Recording (VR) format, if required.
(Reinitializing the disc will erase the contents of the
disc.)
The recording mode is closely related to the disc
format. If the disc format is Video Recording format,
then the recording mode is VR mode; if the disc
format is Video mode, then the recording mode is
Video mode (except for DVD-Video, which is not
recordable, and so does not have a recording mode).
Within the recording modes (which are fixed for them
whole disc) are the record settings. These can be
changed as required for each recording and
determine the picture quality and how much space the
recording will take up on the disc.
About HDD recording
Recording to the internal hard disk drive (HDD) is
basically similar to recording to a VR mode DVD-RW
disc. You have the full choice of recording quality
options, including the manual mode, and of course
you can record, erase and re-record as many times as
you like. The capacity of the hard disk drive means
that you can store many hours of video on it, even in
the higher quality recording modes. To help you
organize the contents, the HDD is divided into ten
genre. You can name and use these genres as you
like—for example, you might have a genre for movies,
another for TV shows, and one for camcorder
recordings.
Notes for recording
The maximum number of titles that can be recorded on the
HDD is 255.
Using the HDD allows you to record a maximum of 12
hours continuously.
You cannot record a radio channel and a digital text
service.
The recording times shown are not exact because the
recorder uses variable bit-rate video compression. This
means that the exact recording time will depend on the
material being recorded.
When recording a TV broadcast, if the reception is poor or
the picture contains interference, the recording times may
be shorter.
If you record still pictures or audio only, the recording time
may be longer.
The displayed times for recording and time remaining may
not always add up to exactly the length of the disc.
The recording time available may decrease if you heavily
edit a disc.
If using a DVD-RW disc, make sure you change the
recording format (Video mode or VR mode) before you
record anything on the disc. See page 25 (Disc Format)
for how to do this.
When using a DVD-R or DVD+R disc, you can keep
recording until the disc is full, or until you finalize the disc.
Before you start a recording session, check the amount of
recording time left on the disc.
When using a DVD-RW disc in Video mode, recording
time available will only increase if you erase the last title
recorded on the disc.
The Delete Title option in the Title List (Original) menu only
hides the title, it does not actually erase the title from the
disc and increase the recording time available (except for
the last recorded title on a DVD-RW disc in Video mode).
When using a DVD+R/RW, the recorder will execute the
Menu-making operation to update the new title and editing
when removing the disc from the recorder or turn off the
recorder. So you must remove the disc after selecting the
recorder’s operation mode to DVD mode.
The recordable time of MLP mode with DVD+R DL discs is
about 11 hours which is similar to single layer discs,
because the resolution of DVD+R DL disc is higher than
that of single layer disc.
This unit can record TV program to HDD only. If you try to
record TV program in DVD mode, the unit automatically
change the mode to HDD then start recording.
In DTV tuner mode, this unit does not record the black
screen such as no signal, rating blocked, or scrambled
channel, etc.
During recording, the unit will stop recording automatically
if the unrecordable condition continues more than an hour.
(for example, no signal, scrambled channel, etc.)
