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HIGH SPEED DUBBING
You can copy the contents of the HDD to a DVD-RAM disc or vice versa, without changing the picture and sound quality.
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What about high speed dubbing to DVD-R? Is it true that a DVD-R can only be created through a dub from the HDD vice directly from the analog inputs? If true, wonder why Toshiba chose to impose that silly limitation. |
Sorry about that, I was very tired last night when I typed that up and should have elaborated. OK, here's the way it works, don't ask me why. The "high speed dubbing" function only works for DVD-RAM, not for DVD-R. For DVD-R, you use the edit menu, and the "Create DVD-R" function. You select the titles and chapters you want to put on the disc until you run out of room, name the disc, choose your menu color scheme, etc., etc. The machine then creates the disc, showing a progress bar on the bottom of the screen, but "backgrounding" the picture so you actually watch whatever live input is coming into the machine, rather than the picture. When the machine is done, it automatically finalizes the disc.
I believe the reason for the "backgrounding" of the picture is that it creates the disc in significantly under the proscribed amount of time. I created a number of two hour discs last night that didn't take two hours to create, I'd be willing to bet. Its not the "high speed dubbing" function per se, but whatever it is, it seems to go significantly faster than regular 1x dubbing that you'd do on an E20. I couldn't tell you what speed it actually is, because I can't find anything in the manual about it, well nothing specific.
True, you cannot record to a DVD-R directly from the input source, it has to be recorded onto the hard drive first. This may be for the reasons others have suggested, it may be because the machine wants to know where one program ends and another begins, or when the recording has finished and it can finalize the disc, because unlike an E20, you can't select an option to manually finalize a disc, the operation is entirely automatic.
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Although all dubbing is performed without converting the digital signals to analog, sound and picture quality may deteriorate in case of Rate Conversion Dubbing and Line-U Dubbing functions.
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Follow up to above: Can dubbing to DVD-R only be performed using Rate Conversion or Line-U dubbing (since DVD-R is not mentioned in the High Speed dubbing quote)? If so, then DVD-R cannot be dubbed without at least some slight degradation. |
Again, you don't use Rate Conversion or Line-U dubbing for DVD-R, you use the "DVD-R create" function. I believe if you record from one speed on the HDD to the same speed on the DVD-R (SP to SP, for example) there isn't any degradation. I have been doing this, being sure to record onto the HDD at the setting I'll eventually want to put it onto disc, and I certainly haven't noticed any degradation of picture quality between the HDD recording and the DVD-R recording.
BTW: Where the hell did they get the term Line-U dubbing from? Talk about designers being out of touch with the end user...