Filter
Top Products
8
Quick Guide to Disc Types
Recordable and playable discs
Usable disc versions (as of May 2004)
• 4x-speed or slower DVD+RWs
• 2x-speed or slower DVD-RWs (Ver.1.1, Ver.1.1
with CPRM*
1
)
• 8x-speed or slower DVD+Rs
• 8x-speed or slower DVD-Rs (Ver.2.0)
“DVD+RW,” “DVD-RW,” “DVD+R,” and “DVD-R,”
are trademarks.
*1
CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) is
a coding technology that protects copyrights for
images.
*2
Only if the recording mode is SP, HSP, or HQ, and
“DVD Rec Picture Size” is set to “16:9.”
*3
Erasing titles does not free up disc space.
Compatibility with
other DVD players
(finalizing)
Playable only on VR mode
compatible players
(finalization unnecessary)
Playable on most DVD
players (finalization
necessary) (page 37)
Playable on DVD+RW
compatible players
(automatically finalized)
—
Playable on most DVD
players (finalization
necessary) (page 37)
Playable on most DVD+R
compatible players (finalization
necessary) (page 37)
Format in VR
mode
(page 36)
Format in
Video mode
(page 36)
Automatically
formatted
(Formatting
unnecessary)
Automatically
formatted
Automatically
formatted
Formatting
(new discs)
Icon
used in
this
manual
Disc
Logo
Type
DVD-
RW
VR
mode
Video
mode
DVD+RW
Hard disk
drive
(internal)
DVD-R
DVD+R
-
RW
VR
-
RW
Video
+
RW
-
R
+
R
HDD