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What Causes Finalizing Failures?

634 Views 8 Replies 7 Participants Last post by wolf411, Oct 27, 2004

tommyrey

Discussion Starter · Oct 25, 2004

Just wondering what issues a failure to finalize is indicative of.

I have a Panny E80H. I recorded 2 movies over the weekend directly from cable. One was 90 minutes at SP, the other was 125 minutes at FR. Both recorded fine but each time when I went to finalize them within 10 seconds of clicking Finalize I got the message Finalization Failed. After I got the message for the first movie, I switched media from Verbatim to Imation thinking it was a media issue but got the same message on the second movie. I finally pulled out the plug and let the unit power down for a few hours. When I plugged it back in I was able to finalize both movies without a problem.

Was this just a fluke or is it an indication that something is starting to fail on my unit? I have recorded about 100 movies without any problems thusfar.

Tommyrey

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ClarkeBar

· #2 · Oct 25, 2004

Sounds similar to what happened to me a short while ago.

I use the Toshiba XS32 and once while burning some titles of simple analog cable content to -R I got all the way to Finalization and it failed at the very end. I traced what must have been the problem to one title of QVC channel compilations. It was flagged with copy protection which should normally be absurd to find. More than likely some noise during the recording (these manuals warn of it constantly) or even perhaps during other processes was interpreted as copy protection.

If you can redub the movies to the HDD but not to DVD this is more than likely the problem...whether it displays the expected copy warnings or not. I know on my unit even if redubbing this suspect title to the HDD I get a copy warning which never occurs with other material.

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webscout

· #3 · Oct 25, 2004

I believe that if u play a non finalized disc in another player (not the original Panny recorder) u will not be able to finalize. This includes Panny players as well.

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HoustonGuy

· #4 · Oct 25, 2004

I use to have this occaisionally on 2 of my E-80's with verbatim and fuji. When I switched over to Taiyo Yuden media it stopped completely.

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PatsWonSB

· #5 · Oct 25, 2004

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Originally posted by webscout
I believe that if u play a non finalized disc in another player (not the original Panny recorder) u will not be able to finalize. This includes Panny players as well.

You cannot play an unfinalized disk in any player (including Panasonics). Even if you were to try, it would not have any impact on finalization (unless you dropped it and scratched in the process

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webscout

· #6 · Oct 26, 2004

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Originally posted by PatsWonSB
You cannot play an unfinalized disk in any player (including Panasonics). Even if you were to try, it would not have any impact on finalization (unless you dropped it and scratched in the process

Interesting...I recently had a disc that I had not finalized...I tried it in Panny Player ..it played...(was checking discs) as well as using the E80.

I tried to finalize the disc and it would not....

Perhaps things were not as I thought..they were.

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cglenn

· #7 · Oct 27, 2004

When I accidentally put in a P85 recorded, unfinished, DVD into my Panny RP91, the unit nearly crashed. Tried to read the disk several times, with the arm motor going all over the place, then shut down. However, I was able to eject it when I turned it back on and immediately pressed eject, before it had a chance to try and read the disk.

Scared me a little, as I love my RP91.

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webscout

· #8 · Oct 27, 2004

I too have had such occurences.....had some heart beat irregularities

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wolf411

· #9 · Oct 27, 2004

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Originally posted by webscout
...I recently had a disc that I had not finalized...I tried it in Panny Player ..it played...

I tried to finalize the disc and it would not....

Could it be that it was a DVD-RAM and not a DVD-R? Those symptoms are consistent with DVD-RAM.

A DVD-RAM would play fine in most Panny players. And a RAM disk would refuse finalization in any unit.

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