Maintenanceand Precautions - Sony HANDYCAM DCR-DVD408 Operating Manual

Maintenanceand precautions
See page 14 for the details of discs
which you can use with your
camcorder.
Notes on use
• Hold the disc by its edge while supporting
the center hole lightly. Do not touch the
recording side (the opposite of the printed
side when using a single-sided disc).
• Before shooting, be sure to remove dust
and fingerpriuts from the disc with a soft
cloth. Otherwise you may not be able to
record or play normally in some situations
using that disc.
• When you set the disc in your camcorder.
press firmly until it clicks. When the
message [(!:13:r-Ivl] appears on the LCD
screen, open the disc cover and set the
disc again.
• Do not attach any adhesive material such
as a sticker on the surface of a disc. If you
do so. the disc may become unbalanced.
and this may cause a malfunction of the
disc or your camcorder.
Useof double-sided d iscs
Douhle-sided discs :dlow you Io record
both sides of a disc.
N Recordingon the A side
Place tile disc in you rcamcorder with the side
wilh tile [] symbol at tile center facing
oulwards unli] il clicks.
__ symbol
Place the [] symbol lacing
o111 wards.
Recording is nlade on lhe rear side.
W s (r
• hen uiu_, a double-sided disc. ake care
not to smudge tile surface with
_.
fiugerprinls, m:.
• When a double-sided disc is used in your =o
camcorder, recording/playback are =_
performed on thai side only. You cat'li'u)l _"
switch tO record on or play back the other _-,
side with the disc set to the camcorder. 3
When recordiug/playback of one side is
complete, remove tile disc and turn it over
Io access the olher side.
• Perform the followiug operalions on each
side of a double-sided disc:
Finalizing lP. 461
Unfinalizing (p. 62)
Formauing (p. 61
)
Continued._
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