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Additional Information
Playable Discs
“DVD VIDEO” and “CD” are trademarks.
DivX, DivX Certified, and associated logos are
trademarks of DivX, Inc. and are used under
license.
DivX
®
is a video file compression technology,
developed by DivX, Inc.
* If the DVD-RAM has a removable cartridge,
remove the cartridge before playback.
Discs that cannot be played
• PHOTO CDs
• CD-ROMs/CD-Rs/CD-RWs that are
recorded in a format different from the
formats mentioned in the table above.
• Data part of CD-Extras
• BDs (Blu-ray Discs)
• HD DVDs
• Discs recorded with an AVCHD-
compatible DVD video camera
• DVD-ROMs/DVD+RWs/DVD-RWs/
DVD+Rs/DVD-Rs that do not contain
DVD Video, DivX video, JPEG image
files, or MP3 audio tracks.
• DVD Audio discs
• Cartridge-only type DVD-RAMs.
• HD layer on Super Audio CDs
• DVD VIDEOs with a different region code
(page 154).
• DVDs that were recorded on a different
recorder and not correctly finalised.
Note on playback operations of DVD
VIDEOs/VIDEO CDs
Some playback operations of DVD
VIDEOs/VIDEO CDs may be intentionally
set by software producers. Since this
recorder plays DVD VIDEOs/VIDEO CDs
according to the disc contents the software
producers designed, some playback features
may not be available. Refer to the
instructions supplied with the DVD
VIDEOs/VIDEO CDs.
Type Disc Logo
Icon used in
this manual
Characteristics
DVD VIDEO
Discs such as movies that can be
purchased or rented
This recorder also recognises DVD-
RAMs* as DVD Video compatible
discs.
VIDEO CD
VIDEO CDs or CD-Rs/CD-RWs in
VIDEO CD/Super VIDEO CD format
CD
Music CDs or CD-Rs/CD-RWs in
music CD format
DATA DVD —
DVD+RWs/DVD+Rs/DVD-RAMs*
containing MP3 audio tracks or DivX
video files
DVD-RWs/DVD-Rs/DVD-ROMs
containing MP3 audio tracks, JPEG
image files or DivX video files
DATA CD —
CD-ROMs/CD-Rs/CD-RWs
containing either MP3 audio tracks,
JPEG image files or DivX video files
DVD
VCD
CD
DATA DVD
DATA CD
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