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Quick Guide to Disc Types
Recordable and playable discs
Usable disc versions (as of March 2005)
• 8x-speed or slower DVD+RWs
• 6x-speed or slower DVD-RWs (Ver.1.1, Ver.1.2
with CPRM
*1
)
• 16x-speed or slower DVD+Rs
• 16x-speed or slower DVD-Rs (Ver.2.0, Ver.2.1)
• 2.4x-speed DVD+R DL (Double Layer) discs
“DVD+RW,” “DVD-RW,” “DVD+R,” “DVD+R DL,”
and “DVD-R” are trademarks.
*1
CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) is
a coding technology that protects copyrights for
images.
*2
This logo applies to 4x and 6x speed DVD-RW discs.
Type Disc logo
Icon used
in this
manual
Formatting
(new discs)
Compatibility with other
DVD players (finalizing)
Hard disk
drive
(internal)
(Formatting
unnecessary)
Dub HDD contents to a DVD to
play on other DVD players
DVD+RW
Automatically
formatted in +VR
mode
Playable on DVD+RW
compatible players
(automatically finalized)
DVD-
RW
VR
mode
Format in VR mode
(page 36)
Playable only on VR mode
compatible players (finalization
unnecessary)
Video
mode
Format in Video mode
(page 36)
Playable on most DVD players
(finalization necessary)
(page 46)
DVD+R
Automatically
formatted
Playable on most DVD players
(finalization necessary)
(page 46)
DVD+R DL
DVD-R
Automatically
formatted
Playable on most DVD players
(finalization necessary)
(page 46)
HDD
+
RW
*2
-
RWVR
-
RW
Video
+
R
-
R