Posted by StsAlive on 04/25/06 05:57

"Ken Moiarty" <kmoiarty35@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:124qku88o20jc88@news.supernews.com...
> 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
> news:P-KdnQpU7Z_uzdbZnZ2dnUVZ8tydnZ2d@bt.com...
>>
>> "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...............
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
>

I suppose it was considered the safer option rather than have home users
coastering lotsa DVD's.

The other thought is that it does slightly hinder mass production
copying............though it would be slow one per time it's even
slowwwweeeeeeerrrrr having to go through that finalizing routine.

dj

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