i HAVE GOTTEN THE DVD/VHS RECORDER AT A ESTATE SALE. ON THE BACK OF THE UNIT IS A STICKER 8x. DOES ANYONE KNOWS WHAT THAT MEANS. THE UNIT IS A RECONDITIONED UNIT, AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT THE BACK OF THE MANUAL SAYS. THXS, SID
texarea51, first off NO all caps please its against forum rules plus its hard to read lol. the 8x is the recommend speed of the blank media you should use
thanks for reply. sorry about the caps, i'm new at this. do you mean i can use 8x dvd-r/rw? what about slower speeds, 2x and 4x?
Yes again but you won't find any 2x or 4x DVD-R on the market.matter of fact its getting pretty hard to find even the 8x speed anymore its all going to 16x speed. the DVD-RW you can get the 4x speed though
Your recorder sounds like an Emerson model made by Funai. Wal-Mart sold them when they were only capable of recording to 4X discs and Wal-Mart was selling only 8X DVD-R discs. The recorder reported "faulty disc" when an 8X disc was put in it, and Wal-Mart contacted each disc supplier and claimed his discs were all bad. (Kind of funny, actually. The same thing happens on this site all the time.) A firmware update allows the model to record to 8X media, and the sticker is probably one that Funai added at the factory to distinguish the updated models. aabbccdd is correct--no factory is manufacturing 8X DVD-R any more. It is all 16X, and those media will not work in the Emerson recorder. Your best bet is to use 4X DVD-RW discs. (DVD-RW or DVD+RW rated faster than 4X will not work at 1X in any machine; so manufacturers have been reluctant to abandon the 4X DVD+/-RW versions.)
