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Posted by Walter Traprock on 07/25/07 01:38
Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Ok dumb questions about recording on my new dvd recorder coming up, as I'm
> > a
> > newbie to this..
> >
> > I recorded 20 minutes of a program followed by an hour and a half of
> > something else (until the disc got full).
>
> What type of disc? DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, other?
>
> > I watched that 'something else' so
> > thought I'd delete it to make some space, and when I went to record some
> > more onto the disc after I'd deleted, it only recorded for ten minutes then
> > told me my disc is full.
> >
> > now i have read in the manual that by deleting titles won't release any
> > disc
> > space.
> >
> > how do i clear up space then? 20 mins on this dvd disc and its full,
> > madness!
>
> Perhaps your broken Shift key is driving you crazy.
>
> A -RW disc can be reinitialized -- your manual should tell you how.
> When you reinitialize it, it becomes an empty disc again.
A DVDrw cannot be partially erased or partially written over? That's
lame. Video tape can be partially written over, and DVDs cannot be.
I guess the OP will have to copy all but the unwanted portions onto
another disc, each time you wish to add something.
So if you want to add a half hour program to a disc at a time until
it is full, you'll have to:
1) Erase Disc
2) record program to hard drive or another disc
3) write dvd-rw
4) record program
3) copy disc
4) erase disc
5) write disc
6) record program
7) copy disc
8) erase disc
9) write disc,
etc.,
four operations per half hour program,
until you get wise and go VHS for the convenience.
Of course, I suspect all the geeks will say:
"why store video on anything but a harddrive? peeps don't
need tapes, dvds, cds, etc., that is old hat, be with it, man, be
more ephemeral".
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