can you still record on it if there is space left?

Say you tape an hour of TV on a DVD-R disc and then stop it- is the disc done? OR can you still record until the space is finished?

I know that it is a record once format, but what I don't know is if you can keep recording.

I mean can you program a timer to record a half hour show at 9:00 pm and then record again at 11:00 pm (or the next day) on a DVD-R?

I hope I am being clear, I'm a little confused.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

As long as you don't finalize the disc, you should be fine in recording more to it later.

your probably more after RW (rewritable discs)

simply because you can re-record, over and over and over again. a plain R disc is record ONCE, and YES if its NOT finalized and has disc space you should be able to add more onto it at a later time as joker pointed out.

when recording using my TV dvd recorder i tend to use RW discs, then transfer the files into my computer, edit commercials etc..... once i have a FINAL version of my disc that im happy with i'll rip it to a R (write once disc)

that way your NOT waisting R discs.

some recorders allow a ram disc to be used

its engineered to be reused 100 000 times, they are about $4-6 each

and work very well for what your doing with the timer

you can still take it to the computer and work the eps and then back to the tv recorder and record again and again

the manual will tell you if ram is supported

my panasonic e55 allows its use

1. RW discs have other issues as well, b/c of dye problems, so i avoid them

2. some OLDER dvd recorders will NOT let u use the disc once u have used it once

I have an older panasonic recorder, 2 years old BUT if i record a 30 minute show on it, pop it out and do not finalize, and tehn pop it back in to record something else i get a U11 error read and it wont record on it anymore< BUT MY NEWER recorder does NOT have the problem, so i just take it to the other 1 to add onto before i finalize, BUT its a big pain in the butt :lol:

RW's do NOT have reliable playback on your home DVD Player. If you want a disc that will defenetely play on your DVD Player, I suggest a DVD-R. A DVD+R is still a little risky.

Thanks for your help guys.

:)

RW's do NOT have reliable playback on your home DVD Player. If you want a disc that will defenetely play on your DVD Player, I suggest a DVD-R. A DVD+R is still a little risky.

Interesting. Conversely, in my experience, the DVD-Rs are the risky ones (some have played, some have not), whereas I've never had a problem with DVD+R.

Interesting. Conversely, in my experience, the DVD-Rs are the risky ones (some have played, some have not), whereas I've never had a problem with DVD+R.


the trouble with the plus discs are

not a lot of people have machines that run the pluses


for my own working copies, i try to use plus discs

for two reasons

they work very well, and they will not get get mixed up with my minuses that im sending off

Hello Loren and everyone else! Loren Jacques here and I hope eveybody out there reading this knows that there is talk that the current dvd disks are Only going to be around for seven to eight years Before they are replaced by something better! I would hate to see myself and others buy hundreds of disks When they will have to be upgraded Again in a very short time. So much for high tech stuff! I guess this is what makes collecting and saving History Fun! I myself prefer the old Beta and Vhs tapes (I have over 500 hundred of them) in my collection and still buying them! They are super easy to use and if one has a certain RCA vcr he or she can program the timer Without turning on the T.V. set! This is not so with the Dvd models I have bought so far.
Finally I sure hope they improve the current Dvd machines in a hurry as the future of video recording Will be changing very, very soon again!
Take care.

do you need a special kind of DVD player for DVR recording