I posted this on the other DVD-R thread, but perhaps some people who aren't following that one can offer insight into my situation...
I have 6 hour-long episodes of a show that I'm trying to get off me HDD, and onto a DVD-r. They are edited down to 42.5 minutes each approximately. So in total, it's a 6-program list that runs for 4:15. I tried burning them to DVD-r last night. I am using Imitation DVD-R, because those are all I can get my hands on without ordering off the net. The disks are expensive enough at $10 or so each.
Anyway, I'm recording them on FR mode, they are SP on the HDD. It all seemed to be going ok, so I went to bed. When I got up this morning, (7 hours later) the dubbing was still active (little moving arrow between HDD and DVD-R) and the countdown clock was 0:00, and the picture was froze at the last frame of the recording. The unit would not respond to any input, including the eject button on the front panel, and the "Hold return for 3 seconds" cancel method.
So eventually I unplugged it. On restart it said "RECOVER" for about a minute, and then went back to normal operation. Attempting to insert the DVD-R now causes u11 to show on the front panel. I'm sure the disk is toast, but did I do something wrong that caused it? Is there a prompt at the end of the dubbing that is supposed to show up? The last part of the episode is edited, could that have something to do with it not being able to burn a whole segment or something?
It's probably just a simple case of poor media, but since this is my first one I wanted to confirm that it wasn't my fault. What has been other people's experience with Imitation brand?
I have 6 hour-long episodes of a show that I'm trying to get off me HDD, and onto a DVD-r. They are edited down to 42.5 minutes each approximately. So in total, it's a 6-program list that runs for 4:15. I tried burning them to DVD-r last night. I am using Imitation DVD-R, because those are all I can get my hands on without ordering off the net. The disks are expensive enough at $10 or so each.
Anyway, I'm recording them on FR mode, they are SP on the HDD. It all seemed to be going ok, so I went to bed. When I got up this morning, (7 hours later) the dubbing was still active (little moving arrow between HDD and DVD-R) and the countdown clock was 0:00, and the picture was froze at the last frame of the recording. The unit would not respond to any input, including the eject button on the front panel, and the "Hold return for 3 seconds" cancel method.
So eventually I unplugged it. On restart it said "RECOVER" for about a minute, and then went back to normal operation. Attempting to insert the DVD-R now causes u11 to show on the front panel. I'm sure the disk is toast, but did I do something wrong that caused it? Is there a prompt at the end of the dubbing that is supposed to show up? The last part of the episode is edited, could that have something to do with it not being able to burn a whole segment or something?
It's probably just a simple case of poor media, but since this is my first one I wanted to confirm that it wasn't my fault. What has been other people's experience with Imitation brand?