10
Quick Guide to Disc Types
Recordable and playable discs for video
Type
Disc Logo
Icon used in
this manual
Formatting
(new discs)
Compatibility with other DVD
players (finalising)
Hard disk drive
(internal)
Formatting
unnecessary
Dub HDD contents to a DVD
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 35)
Playable only on VR mode
compatible players
(finalisation unnecessary)
Video
mode
Format in
Video mode
Playable on most DVD
players (finalisation
necessary) (page 44)
DVD+R
Automatically
formatted in
+VR mode
(DVD+R
VIDEO)
Playable on most DVD
players (finalisation
necessary) (page 44)
DVD+R DL
DVD-R
VR
mode
Format in VR
mode
(page 35)
Formatting is
performed
using the “Disc
Information”
display.
Playable only on DVD-R in
VR mode compatible players
(finalisation necessary)
(page 44)
Video
mode
Automatically
formatted in
Video mode
Playable on most DVD
players (finalisation
necessary) (page 44)
HDD
+
RW
-RW
VR
-RW
Video
+
R
-R
VR
-R
Video