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Posted by Stan Brown on 07/25/07 10:20
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:41:36 +0100 from Tony Tee
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> Its DVD-R discs, I bought 25 of them for £5. I always thought you can go and
> erase digital stuff as long as you haven't finalised the disc.
I can understand why you thought that, but now you know better.
Still, 20p isn't that much to spend for a copy that you can watch any
time. (I wish the used discs could be recycled, though, and not just
put in the trash.)
Finalizing has nothing to do with whether you can re-record a DVD. If
you have finalized a DVD-RW, you can still reinitialize it and start
fresh. (This can be done a limited number of times, not 100,000
times.) If you have *not* finalized a DVD-R or +R, you can *not*
erase anything that's already there.
Finalizing in DVD recording means two things: you can no longer add
anything to what is already there, and a wider range of players will
play the disc. (Many DVD players, and even some computer DVD drives,
won't play a home-burned DVD unless you finalize it.)
> My Audio Cd burner unit used to let me record audio, onto my cd-r audio
> discs, and if i pressed delete, it just cleans it off and you go over it,
> that was digital format, and didn't need a cd-rw unless I had actually
> finalised the disc.
Sorry to disagree, but that can't be right. I'll bet pounds to pence
that this is what was happening: Your audio software was setting up a
playlist for burning to CD, but while you were making changes nothing
had actually been burned. When you "finalized" the disc in your
software, that's when it actually began burning and *then*
finalizing.
P.S. When you quote someone, it's polite to attribute the quote.
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm
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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
DVD FAQ: http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html
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