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Posted by Ken Moiarty on 04/24/06 22:40
Thank you very much, StsAlive (and MaryL)! I took your advice and checked
for "finalization".
Heretofore I had just assumed that finalization would be occurring
automatically with each full disk since the machine already alerts me
whenever a recording is completed whilst not in any way indicating the need
to finalize same. Turns out that in order to get the machine to finalize, I
need to navigate through a series of menus so as to eventually instruct the
machine to do a finalization of disk. This only works for the one disk
though. It appears I have to manually repeat this process each time I want
to finalize another disk. Kind of inconvenient that it can't be set to
automatic or something else less bothersome. But it solves the problem I
was most concerned with. For example, I was able for the first time to play
a disk I recorded in the Toshiba D-R4SU, on my PC's DVD drive.
Unfortunately the other DVD player I have in the house still won't play the
disks. But the family member it belongs to most likely purchased it "on
special" at Walmart, or something like that, so I'm not totally surprised.
Ken
"StsAlive" <two@daybtinternet.com> wrote in message
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> "Ken Moiarty" <kmoiarty35@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:124mge76l7nv468@news.supernews.com...
>> I've been using my Toshiba D-R4SU DVD Player/Recorder to record to DVD
>> since I purchased it a couple of months ago. I have no complaints or
>> problems with it except for this one rather annoying detail: DVD's that
>> I've recorded on my Toshiba D-R4SU, while playing just fine in the unit
>> itself, will not play in any other DVD player. I have tried to play
>> these on several different DVD machines (including one Toshiba model used
>> at work, in my all-format [except for BluRay and HD-DVD] capable drive
>> that I have in my personal computer, as well as other modern DVD players)
>> in which every time I pop in a DVD I've recorded in my Toshiba D-R4SU, it
>> simply will not play. I use only the types of recordable DVD disks that
>> the D-R4SU can record to (DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM), while the machines
>> I try to play these in each clearly indicate they are capable of playing
>> the particular DVD format of the disk(s) which I've tried playing in
>> them.
>>
>> I am somewhat frustrated by this problem. I'm wondering if anyone
>> here knows the answers to the two following questions I have: (1) Is this
>> is an intentional limitation that has been engineered into the Toshiba
>> D-R4SU (i.e. a CRM [copyright management] measure)? (2) What is there I
>> might try, in terms of changing settings of my Toshiba D-R4SU, to
>> possibly to overcome this problem?
>>
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>>
>> PS: All recordings I've made on the Toshiba D-R4SU have been of
>> broadcasts received through my cable TV provider's (Shaw Communication's)
>> cable-box/PVR-Motorola DCT6412 III). I have not yet attempted to record
>> broadcasts to DVD in the D-R4SU while bypassing the cable box/PVR unit
>> (in which case I'd then have fewer channels to choose from), just in case
>> the cause somehow resides embedded within the analog signals fed (via
>> composite connection) to the DVD recorder, originating in the
>> cable-box/PVR-unit, rather than something residing wholly within the DVD
>> recorder per se.
>>
>>
> Finalising...............
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> snip........ a disc enables the disc to be played on any other compatible
> machine. By doing this it changes the disc format so that you can no
> longer record to it turning it into a Play Only disc. On your DVD Recorder
> you can record to many (if not all depending on the model) DVD Disc
> formats to the limit of their capacity over multiple occasions. The disc
> in question can be played back and recorded to on the DVD Recorder during
> this time but until it is finalised it will not work on any other machine.
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