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About HDD recording
Recording
Recording to the internal hard disk drive (HDD) is
basically similar to recording to a VR mode DVD-RAM
About DVD recording
disc.You have the full choice of recording quality
Notes:options, including the manual mode, and of course you
can record, erase and re-record as many times as you
Y This recorder cannot make recordings on CD-R orlike. The capacity of the hard disk drive means that
CD-RW discs.
Y Our company takes no responsibility for recordingyou can store many hours of video on it, even in the
failure due to power outages, defective discs, orhigher quality recording modes. To help you organize
the contents, the HDD is divided into ten genre.You
damage to the Recorder.can name and use these genres as you likeNfor
Y Fingerprints and small scratches on a disc can
affect playback and/or recording performance.example, you might have a genre for movies, another
Please take proper care of your discs.for TV shows, and one for camcorder recordings.
Notes:
Disc types
This recorder can play five different kinds of DVDY The maximum number of titles that can be recorded
on the HDD is 255.
discs:Y Using the HDD allows you to record a maximum of
Pre-recorded DVD-Video discs, DVD-RW, DVD-R,12 hours continuously.
DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and DVD+R discs. The disc for-
mat for DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW discs is always
Notes for recording
OVideo format��the same as pre-recorded DVD-VideoY-RWMake sure you change the recording for-
discs. This means that once finalized, you can play amat(Video mode or VR mode) before you record
DVD-R, DVD+R, or DVD+RW in a regular DVD player.
The DVD-RAM disc format is Video Recording (VR)anything on the disc, See page 26 (Disc Format) for
how to do this.
format.Y+RWOverwrite recording is available.
By default, the DVD-RW disc format is Video
Recording (VR) format, though you can change this toY+RW+RThe recorder will execute the Menu-
making operation to update the new title and editing
Video format, if required. (Reinitializing the disc willwhen removing the disc from the recorder. Always
erase the contents of the disc.)set the recorder to the DVD mode before using the
Recording modesZ (OPEN/CLOSE) button to remove the disc.
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.
Record settings 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.
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