Posted by Tumbleweed on 05/03/07 15:14

"mhall" <mshall@lineone.net> wrote in message
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> On 3 May, 09:46, "Tumbleweed" <thisaccountneverr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> "DH" <nowh...@anywhere.com> wrote in message
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>> news:SMZZh.105584$ne6.16614@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
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>> > Tumbleweed wrote:
>> >> "kim" <ntscu...@aol.com> wrote in message
>> >>news:uamdnafbRYjcdKrbnZ2dnUVZ8qugnZ2d@giganews.com...
>> >>> "Tumbleweed" <thisaccountneverr...@yahoo.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.
>>
>> >>> (kim)
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>> >> You are correct, bloody crap keyboard I have. :-)
>>
>> >> So you think its just down to the media then? OK I'll try some Sony's
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> --
>> 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
>

Excellent, I am an idiot and didnt RTFM! Easily fixed (the latter not the
former :-)
I have just tried it and it worked fine. Many thanks.

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