Quick Guide to Disc Types. Sony RDR-HX910

Quick Guide to Disc Types

Recordable and playable discs

Type

Hard disk drive

(internal)

Disc Logo

Icon used in this manual

Formatting

(new discs)

HDD

(Formatting unnecessary)

Compatibility with other DVD players (finalizing)

Dub HDD contents to a DVD to play on other DVD players

DVD+RW

+ RW

Automatically formatted in +VR mode

Playable on DVD+RW compatible players

(automatically finalized)

VR mode

DVD-

RW

Video mode

*2

-RW

VR

-RW

Video

Format in VR mode

(page 25)

Playable only on VR mode compatible players (finalization unnecessary)

Format in Video mode

(page 25)

Playable on most DVD players

(finalization necessary)

(page 35)

DVD+R

+ R

Automatically formatted

Playable on most DVD players

(finalization necessary)

(page 35)

DVD+R DL

DVD-R

R

Automatically formatted

Playable on most DVD players

(finalization necessary)

(page 35)

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Usable disc versions (as of March 2005)

• 8x-speed or slower DVD+RWs

• 6x-speed or slower DVD-RWs (Ver.1.1, Ver.1.2 with CPRM *1 )

• 16x-speed or slower DVD+Rs

• 16x-speed or slower DVD-Rs (Ver.2.0, Ver.2.1)

• 2.4x-speed DVD+R DL (Double Layer) discs

“DVD+RW,” “DVD-RW,” “DVD+R,” “DVD+R DL,” and “DVD-R” are trademarks.

*1

CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) is a coding technology that protects copyrights for

*2 images.

This logo applies to 4x and 6x speed DVD-RW discs.

Recording Features Editing Features

Rewrite

(page 37)

Auto

Chapter

(page 88)

Manual

Chapter

(page 67)

Record

16:9 sizes

(page 42)

Change title name

(page 63)

Delete title

(page 65)

A-B Erase

(page 64)

Playlist

(page 67)

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No

Yes

Yes

Yes Yes

Yes No

Yes Yes

Yes *3 Yes

Yes Yes

Yes No

Yes

No

No Yes No No Yes Yes *4 No No

No Yes No Yes *3 Yes Yes *4 No No

Discs that cannot be recorded on

• 8 cm discs

• DVD-Rs in VR mode (Video Recording format)

*3

Only if the recording mode is LSP, SP, HSP, or HQ,

*4 and “DVD Rec. Picture Size” is set to “16:9.”

Erasing titles does not free up disc space.

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Playable discs

Type

DVD VIDEO

VIDEO CD

CD

DATA DVD

DATA CD

8 cm DVD+RW/

DVD-RW/DVD-R

Disc Logo

Icon used in this manual

Characteristics

DVD

Discs such as movies that can be purchased or rented

—

—

—

VCD

CD

DATA DVD

DATA CD

—

VIDEO CDs or CD-Rs/CD-RWs in VIDEO

CD/Super VIDEO CD format

Music CDs or CD-Rs/CD-RWs in music CD format that can be purchased

DVD+RWs/DVD+Rs/DVD-RWs/DVD-Rs/

DVD-ROMs containing JPEG image files

CD-ROMs/CD-Rs/CD-RWs containing MP3 audio tracks or JPEG image files

8 cm DVD+RW, DVD-RW, and DVD-R recorded with a DVD video camera.

(Still images recorded with a DVD video camera cannot be played.)

“DVD VIDEO” and “CD” are trademarks.

Discs that cannot be played

• PHOTO CDs

• CD-ROMs/CD-Rs/CD-RWs that are not recorded in music CD or Video CD format, or do not contain MP3 or JPEG files

• Data part of CD-Extras

• DVD-ROMs that do not contain JPEG files or are not in DVD Video format

• DVD Audio discs

• DVD-RAMs

• HD layer on Super Audio CDs

• DVD VIDEOs with a different region code

(page 11)

• DVD-Rs recorded in VR mode (Video

Recording format)

Maximum recordable number of titles

Disc Number of titles*

HDD

DVD-RW/DVD-R

DVD+RW/DVD+R

DVD+R DL

300

99

49

49

* The maximum length for each title is eight hours.

Note on playback operations of DVD VIDEOs/

VIDEO CDs

Some playback operations of DVD VIDEOs/

VIDEO CDs may be intentionally set by software producers. Since this recorder plays DVD

VIDEOs/VIDEO CDs according to the disc contents the software producers designed, some playback features may not be available. Also, see the instructions supplied with the DVD VIDEOs/

VIDEO CDs.

Region code (DVD VIDEO only)

Your recorder has a region code printed on the rear of the unit and will only play DVD VIDEOs

(playback only) labelled with identical region codes. This system is used to protect copyrights.

DVD VIDEOs labelled recorder.

ALL

will also play on this

If you try to play any other DVD VIDEO, the message “Playback prohibited by region code.” will appear on the TV screen. Depending on the

DVD VIDEO, no region code indication may be labelled even though playing the DVD VIDEO is prohibited by area restrictions.

Region code

00W

00V 00Hz

NO.

X

RDR–XXXX

0-000-000-00

Music discs encoded with copyright protection technologies

This product is designed to play back discs that conform to the Compact Disc (CD) standard.

Recently, various music discs encoded with copyright protection technologies are being marketed by some record companies. Please be aware that among those discs, there are some that do not conform to the CD standard and may not be playable by this product.

Note on DualDiscs

A DualDisc is a two sided disc product which mates DVD recorded material on one side with digital audio material on the other side.

However, since the audio material side does not conform to the Compact Disc (CD) standard, playback on this product is not guaranteed.

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Notes

• Some DVD+RWs/DVD+Rs, DVD-RWs/DVD-Rs, or

CD-RWs/CD-Rs cannot be played on this recorder due to the recording quality or physical condition of the disc, or the characteristics of the recording device and authoring software. The disc will not play if it has not been correctly finalized. For more information, see the operating instructions for the recording device.

• You cannot mix VR mode and Video mode on the same

DVD-RW. To change the disc’s format, reformat the

disc (page 25). Note that the disc’s contents will be

erased after reformatting.

• You cannot shorten the time required for recording even with high-speed discs.

• It is recommended that you use discs with “For Video” printed on their packaging.

• You cannot add new recordings to DVD+Rs, DVD-Rs, or DVD-RWs (Video mode) that contain recordings made on other DVD equipment.

• In some cases, you may not be able to add new recordings to DVD+RWs that contain recordings made on other DVD equipment. If you do add a new recording, note that this recorder will rewrite the DVD menu.

• You cannot edit recordings on DVD+RWs, DVD-RWs

(Video mode), DVD+Rs, or DVD-Rs that are made on other DVD equipment.

• If the disc contains PC data unrecognizable by this recorder, the data may be erased.

• You may not be able to record on some recordable discs, depending on the disc.

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