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Joined on: Thursday, 3rd February 2005, 10:48, Last used: Wednesday, 13th July 2005, 21:32

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Recent Messages Posted:

RE: RGB Scart..... what the hell is that ?

I was of the understanding that some scart leads only carried composite & audio signals. Could be wrong though

RE: Questions I wanted to ask about DVD Recorders but was afraid to ask..

The file on the RAM idsk is a VRO file wich is basicly an MPG file. To transfer this to DVD-r disk and make it readable on a standalone player, you would need to author it using appropriate software and then burn it to disk

RE: anyone to recommend a good dvd recorder?

If its a DVD Recorder only that you want then there is plenty to choose from within your budget. Panasonic, Pioneer, Sony & Toshiba all make good DVD Reccorders. Just depends on what your requirements are. If yo can stretch to a bit more you can get a DVD/HD Recorder which gives you more flexablility. I personaly have a Panasonic E85 which is giving me excellent results in terms of quality on recording.

DVD recorders use different formats for recording i.e DVD-r/RW DVD+r/RW & DVD-RAM. This can semm to over complicate things so I will try and simplify it.

DVD + or - R discs are record once only media.
DVD + or - RW discs are re-recordable media - much like VHS tapes
DVD-RAM - Re-recordable with the added advantage of time slip i.e you can pause live recording whilst you answer the door/make a cup of tea/put the cat out :)

www.avforums.com has a wealth of knowledge if you want to look into it a bit further.

RE: Panasonic E85 - Problems with DVD-RAM discs

In case anybody`s interested, I`ve got to the bottom of this one. It`s a known problem with the Panasonic 3x DVD-RAM discs and the LG DVD-RAM writer. Maxell 3x discs are ok and all 2x discs work ok. Effectivly the 5 discs I have will now only be usable with the LG and cannot be used with the E85.

RE: Panasonic E85 - Problems with DVD-RAM discs

I`m using Panasonic DVD-RAM discs so shouldn`t be experiancing any compaibility problems. My Recorder is only 2 weeks old and I have up to 30 days to return it so want to determine if it is faulty or if I am doing something wrong

Panasonic E85 - Problems with DVD-RAM discs

I recently bought a Panasonic E85 DVD/HD recorder and am having problems with DVD-RAM media. I was able to DUB to the discs ok so I could archive recordings to my PC. However when I tried to erase the recordings on the disc, The Panasonic reset itself and went into recovery mode. It did this about 3 or 4 times before it got to a point where I could eject the disc (or do anything else for that matter). When it was doing this, it would come up with a message about a disc error with an option to hit enter. This I would do and off it would go back into recovery mode. When I did get it to the pont I could access the disc, the recordings where still there. If I try to format the disc it fails. I managed to both erase and format the disc in the PC and am able to drag and drop files to it ok. However the Panasonic see the disc as unformated and fails every time I try to format. At first I thought it may have been because the disc was protected but this has now happened on a disc which definately was not protected. A third disc I erased from did so succsesfuly and allowed me to dub something else to it.

Anybody else had this problem? Do I have a faulty DVD Recoreder? :(