NEC NDH-81 Owner's Manual
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33RecordingRecordingAbout DVD recordingNotes: This recorder cannot make recordings on CD-R orCD-RW discs. Our company takes no responsibility for recordingfailure due to power outages, defective discs, ordamage to the Recorder. Fingerprints and small scratches on a disc canaffect playback and/or recording performance.Please take proper care of your discs.Disc types and recording formats, modes,and settingsThis recorder can play five different kinds of DVDdiscs: pre-recorded DVD-Video discs, DVD-RW,DVD-R, DVD+RW and DVD+R discs. The disc formatfor DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW discs is always “Videoformat”—the same as pre-recorded DVD-Video discs.This means that once finalized, you can play a DVD-R, DVD+R, or DVD+RW in a regular DVD player.By default, the DVD-RW disc format is Video format,though you can change this to Video Recording (VR)format, if required. (Reinitializing the disc will erasethe contents of the disc.)The recording mode is closely related to the discformat. If the disc format is Video Recording format,then the recording mode is VR mode; if the discformat is Video mode, then the recording mode isVideo mode (except for DVD-Video, which is notrecordable, and so does not have a recording mode).Within the recording modes (which are fixed for themwhole disc) are the record settings. These can bechanged as required for each recording anddetermine the picture quality and how much space therecording will take up on the disc.About HDD recordingRecording to the internal hard disk drive (HDD) isbasically similar to recording to a VR mode DVD-RWdisc. You have the full choice of recording qualityoptions, including the manual mode, and of courseyou can record, erase and re-record as many times asyou like. The capacity of the hard disk drive meansthat you can store many hours of video on it, even inthe higher quality recording modes. To help youorganize the contents, the HDD is divided into tengenre. You can name and use these genres as youlike—for example, you might have a genre for movies,another for TV shows, and one for camcorderrecordings.Note: The maximum number of titles that can be recordedon the HDD is 255. Using the HDD allows you to record a maximum of12 hours continuously.Notes for recording The recording times shown are not exact becausethe recorder uses variable bit-rate videocompression. This means that the exact recordingtime will depend on the material being recorded. When recording a TV broadcast, if the reception ispoor or the picture contains interference, therecording times may be shorter. If you record still pictures or audio only, therecording time may be longer. The displayed times for recording and timeremaining may not always add up to exactly thelength of the disc. The recording time available may decrease if youheavily edit a disc. If using a DVD-RW disc, make sure you change therecording format (Video mode or VR mode) beforeyou record anything on the disc. See page 19 (DiscFormat) for how to do this. When using a DVD-R or DVD+R disc, you can keeprecording until the disc is full, or until you finalize thedisc. Before you start a recording session, checkthe amount of recording time left on the disc. When using a DVD-RW disc in Video mode,recording time available will only increase if youerase the last title recorded on the disc. The Delete Title option in the Title List (Original)menu only hides the title, it does not actually erasethe title from the disc and increase the recordingtime available (except for the last recorded title on aDVD-RW disc in Video mode). Overwrite recording is available using DVD+RWdiscs. When using a DVD+R/RW, the recorder will executethe Menu-making operation to update the new titleand editing when removing the disc from the recorderor turn off the recorder. So you must remove the discafter selecting the recorder’s operation mode to DVDmode.Recording time and picture qualityThere are four preset recording quality modes: XP – Highest quality setting, gives about1 hour of recording time on aDVD (4.7GB). SP – Default quality, sufficient for most applications,gives about 2 hours of recording time on a DVD (4.7GB). LP – Slightly lower video quality, gives about 4 hourof recording time on a DVD disc (4.7GB). EP – Lowest video quality, gives about 6 hour ofrecording time on a DVD (4.7GB).You may see a fragmented picture during playingback the contents recorded in EP mode . |
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