Sony VIDEO Plus RDR-HX720 - Manual (Page 8)

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Quick Guide to Disc Types
Recordable and playable discs
Type Disc Logo
Icon used in
this manual Formatting
(new discs) Compatibility with other DVD
players (finalising)
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
(DVD+RW
VIDEO)
Playable on DVD+RW
compatible players
(automatically finalised)
DVD-
RW
VR
mode Format in VR
mode (page 27)
Playable only on VR mode
compatible players
(finalisation unnecessary)
Video
mode
Format in
Video mode
(page 27)
Playable on most DVD
players (finalisation
necessary) (page 36)
DVD+R
Automatically
formatted in
+VR mode
(DVD+R
VIDEO)
Playable on most DVD
players (finalisation
necessary) (page 36)
DVD+R DL
DVD-R
VR
mode
Format in VR
mode
(page 27)
*1
Formatting is
performed
using the “Disc
Information”
display.
Playable only on DVD-R in
VR mode compatible players
(finalisation necessary)
(page 36)
Video
mode
Automatically
formatted in
Video mode Playable on most DVD
players (finalisation
necessary) (page 36)
HDD
+ RW
-RW VR
-RW
Video
+ R
-R VR
-R
Video