The instruction book is incomprehensible and the girl on the phone apparently doesn't have a high school diploma. But I followed her instructions and the unit said "rec-copying." It said "done" or something, so I tried playing the DVD to see how I did. There was a prompt on the screen that said something about recording not being finalized, but it disappeared before I could read the whole thing. I hit the "rec" button, thinking that would help, and I ended up with 10 seconds of an Arby's commercial from the TV and no movie.
As I said, the manual is less than informative. Please advise.
There are two methods for copying - one is called "one-touch dubbing" and the other is called the "GUI Method".
For one touch dubbing obviously you have the tape and disc both inserted and have the tape at the position you would like to start copying. Press and hold the Copying button in the direction of the media you're copying to (in this case, the arrow pointing to the DVD) for 3 seconds and it will either start copying or will prompt you on-screen of the television...
If you are using a disc that can be finalized (anything other than DVD+RW or DVD-RAM), you will get a message on the TV that says press Record to record and finalize or press Play to record without finalizing.
The GUI method is to press Functions - Copy, then select the copy direction and start copying.
Before finalizing a disc, when you go to play back the video it always starts with the last recording, not the first. This is probably why you think there is no movie there other than the 10 seconds of Arby's commercial (mmm, Arby's). However, this is the purpose of the Direct Navigator function. If you access it, you should see thumbnails of all of your recordings. Once you finalize the disc and playback, it should start from the beginning.
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