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Posted by Roberto Divia on 04/03/06 12:24
Kevin Wood wrote:
> Can anyone offer any suggestions to help prevent what happened to me last
> weekend happening again.
>
> I was away last weekend so I set up my Sky Digi box to "auto view" a number
> of programmes across the weekend and set my Philips DVDR70 to enable
> automatic recording from Satellite receiver and inserted a new, blank dvd+rw
> disc, the idea being to dvd record these programmes. The 1st programme on
> the list was 1hour and 10 minutes, all the others were 1 hour.
>
> When I came to look back at the disc, the only things recorded were the
> final programme on the list, and the last 10 minutes of the first programme
> on the list! My assumption is that everytime the satellite receiver came
> on, my DVDR70 went into record. but everytime it went into record it
> recorded onto the first part of the disc. Having recorded the 1st programme
> at 1 hr 10 mins, when the next programme came on, it recorded over the first
> hour of the previous recording. Each subsequent recording event over wrote
> the previous recording, so what I was left with was the final programme on
> the list, and the last 10 minutes of the first programme.
>
> Is there some setting that I've got wrong that caused this to happen, or do
> I just have to make sure that I don't use an "RW" disc next time?
Never had problems with RWs... Some hints in random order:
Did you format the DVD using the DVDR70?
Have you done already similar recordings using a stable input?
You sure you had stable power over the WE?
The only way I can overwrite an already recorded video is to select it and
then shutdown the unit. And this not what you did...
I would do some tests with a stable input, then move to more tests
with the Sky box (that I do not have).
Ciao,
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