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Section 5. Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is AUTOSTRATEGY?
AUTOSTRATEGY is a self-adjusting writing technology for unknown
media. AUTOSTRATEGY enables high quality disc recording, even if
the disc is not listed in the drive's internal media catalog. You control
AUTOSTRATEGY via PlexTools Professional or other recording
software.
AUTOSTRATEGY works like this: When you insert a piece of DVD+R
or DVD-R media—whether an unknown media type or even a type that
is currently in the media catalog in the drive's firmware—
AUTOSTRATEGY can create a write strategy for that new media and
add it to a separate database. This non-volatile memory of the drive
holds up to 31 write strategies. You can activate, deactivate, and delete
entries in this separate AUTOSTRATEGY database. You can also view
and save or print the list of database entries.
With PlexTools Professional, you have full control over
AUTOSTRATEGY. You can allow AUTOSTRATEGY to pick the best
write strategy, whether that strategy is in its own database or the drive's
media catalog. Or you can force AUTOSTRATEGY to always use its
own database, or to always use the media catalog database. For
PlexTools Professional details and downloads, see
http://www.plextools.com/.
Q: What's the difference between "double layer" and "dual layer"?
A: Nothing, really. It's simply a difference of opinion within the industry
about how to label media and drive capabilities. DVD+R DL (as named
by the DVD+RW Alliance) stands for DVD+R Double Layer. DVD-R
DL (from the DVD Forum) stands for DVD-R Dual Layer. Whether
your DL media is labeled "double layer" or "dual layer," the PX-755SA
can handle it.
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