Philips Magnavox MWR10D6 DVD Recorder "recordable unused disc format" Questions

...recordable disc Only DVD-RW discs can be formatted. If it is a DVD-R and you have already tried recording on it, the disc will be unusable. If the disk is not formatting, it might be defective. Try ...

...unused ones, some times indicating that the discs require formatting and then when an attempt to format is made, the machine indicates that the disc cannot be formatted. Regards Gordon Griffith ...

...disc No. Generally finalising just writes the unused spaces as unused so the player knows and adds a stop code. The shorter the DVD the longer the finalise. An hour and a half on two hours is plenty ...

unused disc, I have never seen the NEW DISC FORMAT screen. Had Premium chat with Masteria who suggested cleaning, which I did, still have same probloms Usually this would signal a bad disc, but if the

format the disc because of error detection. Did not even display the options for -V or -VR mode. Have tried several dics without succes so far. HELP. can i suggest you record vhs tapes on maxell dvd-r

...unused disc again). All in all I have found my RH19991H really confusing as far as disk initialization and formatting and finalizing is concerned. Sometimes you can select to finalize a +-rw dvd and ...

unused DVD+RW disc to test it, but it seems to mean that even DVD+RW discs can only be used once to record. This VCR is one shoddy product*#%@! jamesgranger - I think your DVD recorder is still having

...format the disc, choose a mastered burn (single-session).  In Windows Explorer, you can do this by right-clicking on the optical drive in Computer (My Computer) or from the menu for the drive ...