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The Initial Setup menu
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Disc settings
Lock Disc
• Default setting:
Off
Set to
On
to prevent accidental recording, editing or
erasing of the disc loaded. If you need to unlock the disc
to make edits, select
Off
.
Important
•A locked disc can still be initialized (which will
completely erase the disc).
Initialize
See
Initializing a DVD-RW disc
on page 40 for detailed
instructions on this option.
Finalize
Finalizing ‘fixes’ the recordings in place so that the disc
can be played on a regular DVD player or computer
equipped with a suitable DVD-ROM drive.
See
Playing your recordings on other DVD players
on
page 39 for detailed instructions.
Undo Finalize
You can undo the finalization on Video mode DVD-RW
discs recorded and finalized on this recorder. You need to
do this if you want to record more material or edit
material already on the disc.
If when you load a disc the message
This disc cannot be
recorded. Undo the finalization
is displayed, use this
command to be able to record on the disc using this
recorder.
Select
Finalize
, then
Undo Finalize
Start
from the
finalize options screen.
Pioneer cannot guarantee that undoing the finalization will
work with discs that were finalized on another recorder.
Video settings
Video In
Color System
• Default setting:
Auto
On the default setting, the recorder automatically detects
whether the video signal from the built-in tuner or from
one of the external inputs is
PAL
or
SECAM
. You may,
however, occasionally need to set it manually if the
picture is not displayed properly.
1 Select ‘Color System’, then press ENTER.
VR mode
Basic
Disc
Video
Audio
Recording
Playback
Lock Disc
Initialize
Finalize
Disc
Lock Disc
Lock Disc
Off
DVD-RW
DVD-RW DVD-R
DVD-RW
Basic
Disc
Video
Audio
Recording
Playback
Video Out
Input Adjust
Video In
Playback Adjust
Video
Color System Preset
Color System
Color System
Pr01
PAL
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