Posted by mhall on 05/03/07 10:34

On 3 May, 09:46, "Tumbleweed" <thisaccountneverr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Tumbleweed wrote:
> >> "kim" <ntscu...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >>>> Just been given one of these and burnt my first disk. Its viewable on
> >>>> the same recorder, and also another DVD player, but cant be read on
> >>>> either of my PC DVD drives, gives an error like 'wrong format'. Is
> >>>> there an RTFM or similar I should be doing? The media I used works in
> >>>> the DVD rewriter on my PC.
> >>> I think you'll find the DMR-E50 is Panasonic not Philips? (I've got one)
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> >>> And yes it's a bastard trying to burn discs which will play on another
> >>> machine.A friend swears by Sony DVD-R for this particular player.
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> >>> (kim)
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> >> You are correct, bloody crap keyboard I have. :-)
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> >> So you think its just down to the media then? OK I'll try some Sony's
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> > Just to play devils advocate - did you finalise the disc ?
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> > :)
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> Unfortunately I did (or it would be easy to fix :-).
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> I pressed 'stop' and a message then came up 'finalising disk' and then it
> counted up progress, so I am pretty sure it did do that. Will RTFM and see
> if there is anything else I might have missed.
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> Tumbleweed

I'm not sure that you did finalise the disk if all you did was to
press 'stop'. From using my own DMR-E50, this just writes the
recording to the disk. In order to use it on another machine, the disk
needs to be finalised which converts the format from DVD-R to DVD-
Video (sorry if I've got the details wrong!).

You finalise the disk from one of the menus and I think the option is
'Disk Information'. It then becomes read-only.

HTH

Mark

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