On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:26:06 -0400, you wrote:
The answer is PROBABLY YES.
What went wrong? You didn't read the instructions and guessed what you thought
you read.
Been there and DONE that --------
Engage brain first then read the book EVERY TIME for at least every time for
every year over 40.
> You had 4 hours left on the DVD after you've deleted what you already had
> watched from that disk.
>You set it to record 4 hours from 5pm stoped it at 7pm which is already two
>hours worth of recorded
>material. Waited until the set top DVD recorder finished writting the data to
>the DVD disk then at 8:30 you
>continued recording on from that point for another 2 hours which it should
>have stoped at 10:30 rather than 10:00pm.
>
> From what I've just understood you only had less than 30 minutes on the DVD
> disk to record on since you
>restarted recording at 8:30pm which for another two hours the recording should
>have stopped at 10:30pm
>not 10:00PM. This is why it stopped recording at 10:00PM becuase you had less
>than 30 minutes left to record
>on the DVD.
>
> Since that's the case either the DVD did not leave a bookmark to append the
> second recording or fully closed the lead-out at the end of the last
> recording which had 30-minutes truncated from that disk when the recording
> ended at 10pm. This could be why you report that there or 32mb of data on the
> DVD.
>
>Marc Sims
>Data Technician I
>Prince George's Community College
>
>
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, October 23, 2006 >>>
>What happened you say?
>Last night I didn't get to see all the previous shows on the disk, so deleted
>what I did watch and that left 4 hours remaining. Set it to record the 4
>hours from 5pm. Stopped it around 7pm and changed channels - had to wait a
>few minutes while it writes stuff. Then at 8:30 let it record the next 2
>hours.
>For some reason it stopped recording around 10pm, and it started to write
>stuff again, but this time it apparently failed and then asked me (30 min
>later) if I wanted to format the disk as it wasn't formatted properly!!
>
>Slipping the disk into the computers DVD player, the file system revealed only
>32 mb of data was on the DVD.
>Any ideas?
>
>
>Regards
>Robert McCurdy
Sir Hugh of Bognor
The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
Intelligence is not knowing the answer but knowing where and how to find it!
Hugh Gundersen
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Bognor Regis, W.Sussex, England, UK
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