Dvd Recording; Before Recording - Sony RDR-VXD655 Operating Instructions Manual

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Before Recording
Recording mode and recording time
The follOWing table IS an approximate gUide for
the recording time on a single DVD (47GB)
Recording mode Approximate
recording time
(minute)
SP (Standard mode) 120
SLP (Long duration) 480
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The approximate recording tIme for DVD+R DL
(Double Layer) discs IS as follows
HQ 1 hour 48 minutes
HSP 2 hours 42 minutes
SP 3 hours 37 minutes
LSP 4 hours 31 minutes
ESP 5 hours 25 minutes
LP 7 hours 14 minutes
EP 10 hours 51 mInutes
SLP 14 hours 28 minutes
Before you start recording
• This recorder can record on vanous disc types
Select the disc type according to your needs
(page 12)
• Check that the disc has enough avatlable space
for the recording (page 46) For DVD+RWs or
DVD-RWs, you can free up disc space by
erasing titles (page 58)
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To playa disc recorded with this recorder on other
equipment, finalIze the disc (page 87)
• Timer recordings will start with or without the recorder
turned on The recorder automatically turns off after a
recording has finished
• This recorder records at x 1 speed
• This recorder shares a single tuner for both the DVD
recorder and the VCR You cannot record different
programs to a DVD and a VHS tape at the same tIme
Recording mode
HQ (High
qualIty)
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EP
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Like the SP or EP recording mode of VCRs, this
recorder has eight different recording modes
Select a recording mode according to the time and
picture quahty you need For example, If picture
quahty IS your top pnonty, select "HQ" (high
quahty) If recording time IS your pnonty, "SLP"
can be a possible choice
Press REC MODE repeatedly to sWitch the
recording modes
I want to record with the
best possible picture
quality, so I'll select HQ
• When In a recording mode other than HQ, the recorder
compresses the audio/video data before recording
Since the compression rate needs to decrease for fast-
moving Images or If picture nOise IS present, recorded
data size Increases, and avaIlable recording tIme
becomes shorter When recording such pictures, a
recording mode offenng longer recording tIme IS
recommended
• SituatIons below may cause shght Inaccuracies With
the recording tIme
- Recording fast-moving or Images contalmng picture
nOIse
- Recording a program With poor receptIon, or a
program or Video source of low picture quality
- RecordIng on a dISC that has already been edIted
- RecordIng only a stIll pIcture or Just sound
• Since the recording mode for recorded tItles IS
calculated after samplIng the recorded data dUflng
playback, It may be displayed differently from the
mode you selected when recording However, the
actual recordIng Itself IS correctly made In the selected
mode
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