Can You Tape Over a Movie on a Dvd Disc
Recording on DVD -RW discs
ok I've got a DVD recorder with a difficult drive , and I've slowly been getting used to it but I'm still unsure near something -
DVD-RW discs are re-recordable right ? and so I can record on them , then erase and record on them over again .
correct ?
well if I want to record something on the DVD-RW disc practise I have to finalise it earlier I can play it back on another dvd histrion ?
and if I do finalise it can I still erase it and record over it ?
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'well if I want to record something on the DVD-RW disc practice I accept to finalise it before I can play it dorsum on some other dvd player ?'
Aye, about Players prefer finalised Discs.
The -RW and +RW disc variants are not so uniform equally the -R or +R Discs. Older players may not similar them. You lot'll accept to look at the specs for the individual Player.
DVD-R are the most uniform simply they are of grade write once.
'and if I do finalise it can I withal erase it and record over information technology ?'
Yes you tin, that's the point of a DVD-RW (or DVD+RW).
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Well yous can on my DVDR, you simply have to reformat the disc.
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You may accept to ready the DVD-RW to Video Mode to arrive more uniform before you record and finalise.
My Pioneer and Panasonic players are ok with VR-fashion though. Equally they're re-writables give each a try you've nix to lose except your fourth dimension.
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yep , this is the bit in the transmission that has me confused - Video Mode and VR-Mode ... what are they ? whats the departure ?
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Video mode creates DVD's in DVD-Video format which is uniform with normal DVD players. When you buy a DVD that's the format you get. VR-way is used on DVD recorders as y'all can add content as you lot get (I think)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video
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What make is your recorder?
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its an LG RH177
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Only had experience of Pioneer and Panasonic, prefer the Pioneers myself.
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Some recorders similar Pioneer volition allow you to record on RW discs , finalise them to play elsewhere and then disengage that finalise in order to add together more content.
Other recorders will only let y'all to record on a finalised RW by reformatting which deletes all the content.
AFAIK Panasonic recorders exercise non tape in VR mode even though they may play it.
If you lot want to exercise the fancy editing that VR mode allows for Panasonic still expect you to use RAM.
But if you have a hard drive you lot should record everything on there then that you can edit it and and so you just re-create the recording directly to disc.
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Purchasing a -RW merely recorder a few years was the worst decision I made, I have tons of -RW's that will no longer work once my player packs upward as my other machines including my DVD rewriter won't play them.
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The likely reason they won't play is considering you didn't finalise them.
If they still play on the recorder but nowhere else that will exist the problem although bold you lot didn't read the instructions properly you might have recorded in VR mode instead of VIDEO mode
And if yous plan on keeping recordings you should write to -R or +R.
RW discs are for watch and wipe not for archiving
If the discs still play on the recorder then you should have no problems getting the recordings off them and onto more uniform discs.
If they still play on the recorder it is highly unlikely annihilation is wrong with them.
Based on what y'all've said I would get for "user mistake" as the problem.
What make is the machine.
If y'all don't know how to apply it properly information technology won't take made any difference whether yous bought -RW or +RW
Boosted info should assist in pointing you in the right direction to retrieve your recordings
Assuming its every bit simple equally not being finalised , yous should find the option in the recorder setup.
In one case you've finalised a disc information technology should play in other players.
If yous've recorded in VR style you'll need a PC drive that reads VR and you can re-create them to the PC then back to a -R disc
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As you say, all of the recordings to the -RW's are in VR mode, although I've figured out how to format into video mode, which should resolve hereafter recordings with those discs.
However, I did finalise other -RW discs, only every bit they're in VR mode, they still won't work in my other recorders.
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Then many people saying the same thing and nonetheless some defoliation, so here's my version based on my Pioneer and Sony recorders.
For discs to be playable in other standard dvd players, the disc must exist -R or -RW in Video Mode and finalised.
If your recorder has the power/choice to format a -RW disc in either Video Fashion or VR Mode yous must ensure the disc is formatted in Video Manner before recording to it or transferring recordings to information technology from the hard drive and that the disc is then finalised.
If you want to reuse the disc you lot can either unfinalise it and then delete some or all of the recordings merely bear in mind if you delete selective recordings from a Video Way disc you only proceeds new space for more than recordings when you delete the concluding recording in the list. If you lot accept recordings A,B,C,D and you delete recording B yous won't proceeds the space for reuse but you will if you delete recording D, then C and and so on.
If yous delete recordings from a VR Manner disc you tin can reuse space created past whatever deletion considering a VR Mode disc acts as a mini 4.3 GB difficult drive.
Or, if you lot want to reuse the whole disc in any mode it's easiest to reformat rather than unfinalise and delete recordings, as reformatting wipes it clean and readies information technology for new recordings.
In my Pioneer and Sony machines there is a set up choice where you tin choose to have a new unformatted RW disc automatically formatted in either Video Way or VR Fashion the first fourth dimension it'southward inserted into the automobile as well as the option to manually format at any time.
I'd have thought this was the same with any VR capable machine, check the manual.
Whatever other offers?
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You need to get them onto -R discs.
If your PC dvd drive is not too erstwhile you should observe it will play finalised discs in VR mode.
I take seen dvd playback programs that are many years sometime that will read VR mode discs .
If yours won't y'all should exist able to download i for gratuitous by doing a google search.
If it does , copy them to the PC and then you can copy them back onto a -R disc - job done.
Practice you lot take a HDD in your dvdr?
If y'all exercise you could also copy the VR content to the HDD although I notice thats easiest with unfinalised discs and you can then transfer the content from disc to drive at loftier speed with no loss of quality.
Finalised discs can usually only be copied one title at a time in existent time and quality is lost
Further to the post above- there should exist a setting on your recorder that will automatically format discs when yous utilise new ones and you can adjust the settings to VIDEO mode.
The advantage of VR manner is that you tin do sophisticated editing as good as you can do with hard drive recordings , something not possible in VIDEO mode or with DVD+ discs.
Every bit y'all take been able to finalise the discs I'chiliad sure y'all'll exist able to find a way to go the content from one disc to another using your PC .
Even if you get a new PC dvd drive , they're pretty inexpensive
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My new PC DVD rewriter doesn't read DVR-RW's in VR mode, although I'll look for relevant software that can read from those discs.
The chief reason I used VR was every bit you say to edit recordings down to what I wanted to spotter.
I don't accept a HDD with my DVD-R equally it's an old Sharp VHS/DVR-R combi.
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I sold a couple of DVD players on fleabay the other calendar month that would have sorted out your troubles. A Pioneer and a Panny they both went for under £xx so may exist worth looking on there.
Playback on actor and record on the dvd recorder simultaneously, bit of a faff I know.
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thanks guys , well I got it figured out now , the video mode is the cardinal .
altho oddly - when I first put the disc in the motorcar it initialised it to VR , I did a copy then of course information technology wouldn't play on my other thespian .
so put it back in and re-formated it to Video style and worked fine .
btw - how long will DVD-RW discs last ? how many times can I copy over them ?
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I bought my starting time recorder (Pioneer DVR 220) in 2006 southward/hand, it yet works but is only used equally back-upward now.
Evidently I purchased some DVD-RWs then, some were Imation and others PC Line. These still piece of work and have been formatted in VR and Video mode, depending on the purpose of the recording.
I tin can honestly say I have never had any major issues with any of my DVD-RWs.
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whats Imation and PC Line?
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Ive been using the same 5 Maxell DVD-RW discs now for a year to copy stuff from my sky Hard disk box to my PC using my panasonic recorder and when i've finished coping the disc's contents onto my reckoner i format them on the pc and take never had a problem with unplayable discs:)
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