I'm always told "you must finalize a disc before it will play in another machine. YES, I KNOW, but what does it MEAN!!!!
2006-12-13 23:36:38 · 3 answers · asked by teslanicholas 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TiVO & DVRs
When it is preparing, it is writing the beginning diolauge, which all dvds have at the start of the disc. At the end, it writes the finalization diolauge, to tell the dvd player when the dvd ends. Think of them as codes that are like bookends for movies in between.
2006-12-13 23:42:31 · answer #1 · answered by Jack S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All DVD players can read DVD-R media. DVD recorders exist in many flavors; DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RAM, etc.
There are also other variations, such as recording in VR mode, which offers more features if you use a player that actually supports that format. Among all these variations, DVD-R is usually the one supported by all.
When you finalize, you do two things:
a) You close the Disc; that is, no more recordings are allowed
b) You make sure the file structure conforms to the "universal" one; DVD-R
2006-12-17 10:39:20 · answer #2 · answered by TV guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its putting the data into different folders on the dvd to make it able to run on tv
2006-12-13 23:38:20 · answer #3 · answered by michaeljoyzer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋