Hello

After searching forum for this Im wondering if you can help?

I purchased my D-R560 toshiba recorder and was under the impression since it doesnt use ram discs the book says it can do copy once recordings if you use a -rw disc but found an asterisk that says works on "cprm compatible disc only". (if programming allows of course)

Okay cant find them...I found a link online that said version 1.1- B cprm compatible works in recorders? Dont know how old or applicable the info is..

Will any -rw work for this or not?

Do the -rw's cprm compatable exist as book seems to imply?

Thank you for pointers :confused:

If I hit a lot of copy protect programming I wont be a happy camper at all.

Hello

After searching forum for this Im wondering if you can help?

I purchased my D-R560 toshiba recorder and was under the impression since it doesnt use ram discs the book says it can do copy once recordings if you use a -rw disc but found an asterisk that says works on "cprm compatible disc only". (if programming allows of course)

Okay cant find them...I found a link online that said version 1.1- B cprm compatible works in recorders? Dont know how old or applicable the info is..

Will any -rw work for this or not?

Do the -rw's cprm compatable exist as book seems to imply?

Thank you for pointers :confused:

If I hit a lot of copy protect programming I wont be a happy camper at all.I don't know about the specifics of your Toshiba, but I use a lot of DVD-RW that I use for burning "proof" videos on my PC while in the authoring process. Anyway, every DVD-RW I have ever bought has been CPRM compliant. They all have it printed on the disk itself. This includes the latest batch of 25 I bought that were made by Ritek and sold by Office Depot as their house brand.

-RW discs are CPRM compliant if they're formatted for VR-mode. My Pio 640 has a default setting for auto-formatting -RWs for VR-mode and you have to change it to Video-mode manually if you don't want VR.

If your machine allows VR formatting, you can also use -R formatted in VR-mode and record CO protected stuff.

I think Toshiba do VR-mode so check your Disc Edit menu (or whatever it's called) and see if there's an option for that, or maybe there's a menu item in the Recording menu, like there is in the Pios?

Most -RW media is CPRM compliant, but "copy once" protected content usually also requires a DVD recorder format that is not playable on ordinary DVD players. DVD-RAM by its very nature is unplayable as a standard disc, which is why it can record just about anything. To use -RW, you need to go into your recorders Setup or Disc Setup menu and reformat the disc as "VR Mode", which changes it to a format that only plays in recorders, not players.

The normal, compatible recording format for universal playback is "Video Mode", you need to remember to switch the format back to this on some recorders when you want to make finalized discs that will play anywhere. Other recorders automatically default back to one mode or the other. Each recorder is different, so be sure to double-check your manual for formatting details.

What wajo and kelson said is the key: all RW media is CPRM compliant, +RW media is not CPRM compliant and neither is -R or +R media. Only RAM and -RW media can be CPRM compliant. It's not how the media is formatted, it is how the media itself was designed. CPRM wasn't created for video, it was created for PC applications to prevent software piracy. There was a movement sometime ago by the business software alliance to force all hard disk drives to be CPRM encrypted. Thankfully the effort failed, but the compromise was to make RAM afflicted with CPRM.

Thanks for the clarification, Kelson :o : my apologies for misinterpreting my instruction manuals. These machines continue to throw surprises my way when I least expect it.

I really appreciated the info all of you provided :)

I had read online that -rw in vr mode and in manual will do it but then that little asterisk in the manual saying disc must be compatible to it was confusing because it was listed next to the -rw info.

Im glad to hear it should all be compliant !

Since I couldnt get a hdd recorder right now I was counting on at least that.

Thanks again ;)

JVC now stocks DVD-RW with CPRM, they are currently selling them as a 5 pack for $9.99

http://store.jvc.com/product.asp?Model=VD-W47DU5R