Menus, Titles menu, Closing a dvd+r disc (finalize disc) – Technicolor - Thomson DTH8000 User Manual

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Menus

Titles Menu

This menu allows you to access recordings that you have made on your DVD+R or DVD+RW
discs, or those carried out by other DVD recorders if they are compatible with your device (see
page 31).

From the Main Menu (

MENU

key or in stop mode) select the Disc function with the

key then confirm with

.The disc menu is displayed.

Select Disc Title Menu and confirm with

.The titles menu is displayed.The name of the

disc is selected. From there, you can access the titles recorded on the disc or access functions
specific to the disc.To display a title, select it from the list using the

ebutton and

press

To access the functions specific to the disc when the name of the disc is selected, press the

button to display the disc menu.

• Rename Disc, allows you to change the name chosen

by the DTH 8000 (Thomson xx) for a name of your
choice selected using a table of alphabetic characters.

• Erase Disc, deletes all the titles on the disc.
• Lock Disc (or Unlock Disc) protects the disc against

accidental recording.This choice is not definitive, you
can choose to unlock the disc later by again selecting
Lock Disc and confirming it with

• Finalize Disc (only with a DVD+R). Once you select

this function you can no longer add titles to those
already recorded.

Note: the space occupied by titles on the disc are represented by coloured bands at the bottom of the Title
menu.You can thus get an idea of the space occupied by the various video recordings (titles) and the
remaining time available on the disc.

Closing a DVD+R disc (Finalize Disc)

When a DVD+R disc is full, or when you do not wish to record any more programmes on it, you
must close the disc so that it can be played using other DVD+R compatible devices. If you do not
carry out this operation you can still however play the disc in your DTH 8000.

With the DVD+R disc in the DTH 8000

From the main menu, select Disc using the

button and then confirm with

Select Disc Title Menu using the

button and confirm with

.The title menu is

displayed.The name of the disc is selected. Press

to display the specific functions of the

disc.

Select Finalize Disc using the

button and confirm with

.Your DTH 8000,

closes the disc session and prepares a home screen made up from images representing each
recorded title. FINALIZING remains displayed during this operation and disappears once
the disc is ready.

Note: with DVD+RW discs the Finalize Disc function is replaced by Make compatible.You need to
make a DVD+RW disc compatible if you have added or deleted chapter bookmarks in order that the disc
can be played on other DVD players.

Rename Title

Play Title

Play Full Title

Delete Title

Clear Chapters

DVD+RW

DVD+R

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