LG RC299, Owner'S Manual

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Overview (Continued)

About DVD-R and DVD-RW disc

How are DVD-R and DVD-RW discs different?
The essential difference between DVD-R and DVD-RW
is that DVD-R is a record-once medium, while DVD-RW
is a re-recordable/erasable medium. You can re-record/
erase a DVD-RW disc approximately 1,000 times.

Can I play my recordable discs in a regular DVD
player?
Generally, DVD-R discs and DVD-RW discs recorded in
Video mode are playable in a regular DVD player, but
they must be ‘finalized’ first. This process fixes the con-
tents of the disc to make them readable to other DVD
players as DVD-Video discs.
DVD-RW discs recorded in VR (Video Recording) mode
are playable in some players.

This indicates a product feature that is capa-
ble of playing DVD-RW discs recorded with
Video Recording format.

What are ‘recording modes’?

There are two recording modes available using this
recorder: VR mode and Video mode. When recording to
a DVD-R disc, recordings are always in Video mode.
DVD-RW discs can be formatted for VR mode recording
or Video mode recording.

VR mode recording
• 5 different picture quality/recording time settings avail-

able (XP, SP, LP, EP, MLP)

• Not playable on regular DVD players
• Recordings can be extensively edited

Video mode recording
• 5 different picture quality/recording time settings avail-

able (XP, SP, LP, EP, MLP)

• Playable on regular DVD players (after finalizing)
• Limited editing features

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DVD-Video Format (Video mode) is a new format for
recording on DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW discs that was
approved by the DVD Forum in 2000. You may therefore
experience problems playing recordable DVD discs in
some players. Symptoms include video artifacts, audio
and/or video dropouts and playback suddenly stopping.
Our company cannot take responsibility for problems
playing discs recorded on this recorder in other players.

Is editing a DVD like editing a video tape?

No. When you edit a video tape you need one video
deck to play the original tape and another to record the
edits. With DVD, you edit by making a ‘Playlist’ of what
to play and when to play it. On playback, the recorder
plays the disc according to the Playlist.

About word ‘Original’ and ‘Playlist’

Throughout this manual, you will often see the words
Original and Playlist to refer to the actual content and
the edited version.
• Original: content refers to what’s actually recorded on

the disc.

• Playlist: content refers to the edited version of the

disc — how the Original content is to be played.

About DVD+R and DVD+RW disc

How are DVD+R and DVD+RW discs different?
The essential difference between DVD+R and DVD+RW
is that DVD+R is a record-once medium, while
DVD+RW is a re-recordable/erasable medium. You can
re-record/ erase a DVD+RW disc approximately 1,000
times.

DVD+RW mode recording
• 5 different picture quality/recording time settings avail-

able (XP, SP, LP, EP, MLP)

• Playable on regular DVD players 
• The edited contents is playable on regular DVD play-

ers only after finalizing

• Recordings can be edited the title/chapter

DVD+R mode recording
• 5 different picture quality/recording time settings avail-

able (XP, SP, LP, EP, MLP)

• Playable on regular DVD players (after finalizing)
• Any edited contents are not be compatible on regular

DVD players. (Hide, chapter combine, added chapter
mark, etc.)

• Limited title/chapter editing features

DVD +R (Double Layer) 
Double layer recording technology offers two recordable
layers on a single DVD disc, providing nearly double the
capacity of 4.7GB single layer DVDs. The greatest, most
valuable benefit of double layer recording technology is
increased capacity. Storage space is nearly doubled
with double layer DVD+R media, allowing consumers to
burn up to 8.5GB of video on a single DVD+R disc.