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Recording on my DVD player
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My Panasonic DVD player has the facility to record and re-record. I have been using DVD+RW discs but find that after a few times, they don't work properly, when I have deleted programmes and am trying to re-record, the facility doesn't always work, and when I try to play something back, I get a 'grating' sound as if the machine is trying to work - but can't ! So I fiddle about with buttons, then it says the disc is dirty or scratched when I know it isn't. Eventually it lets me open the eject casing so I can retrieve the disc - and then I usually throw it away. I am wondering if buying the DVD+RW discs are the correct ones to buy ? What are the DVD - RW ? Should I be using them instead? All I want to do is record, watch, delete and re-record. It seems to be fine on shop-bought films, though.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I have the same Panasonic machine as yourself and get the same problems, but with DVD-RW. I asked the same question also and was informed that DVD`s don`t last as many times as they like you to think. So I now use only SKY+ to do my recording which is so much less bother. I only use CD`s on my recorder now for music and 5in1.
The DVD manual will tell you which DVD discs can be used with the recorder. My Samsung will only use DVD-RW (as stated in the Samsung manual) and are re-written many times. I would suggest that the discs seem to work better when given a FULL erase in the computer rather than a QUICK erase and over the last 3 or 4 years I have only had one disc which refused to work after being erased. The recorder found "an error"!!!
Maybe I have just been lucky????
Maybe I have just been lucky????
Redman; '+' and '-' within DVD technology has nothing to do with whether the disc is multilayered or not. Both -RW and +RW discs can be multilayered. The symbols denote which technology family the DVD is manufactured for. The '+' format is a newer one, and offers some under the hood technology improvements over the '-' format. You might want to get your facts straight before answering questions in future.