How do I close a DVD so it can be watched on another DVD player

Topper said:
Mine is an RDR GX210 but I only bought it 18 months ago, so again I am completely puzzled as I said mine does not operate like that at all, you cannot remove the DVD without writing and finishing to disk. Perhaps as mine is younger it has an upgraded firmware version?
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Hello Topper.

I see that you have the same Sony DVD recorder model RDR-GX210 that RCP has. Here is your chance to sell it at twice the price that you paid. ;)

Assuming that you have also many recorded DVDs which are not finalized, then I would recommend to finalize them so that they can play in any standalone DVD player or a PC DVD drive. Just in case your machine might stop working all of a sudden.
The finalization would create files into the DVD media, in a standard fashion.

What you have described can be thought of as like a saving process and not a finalization.
Obviously the recorder doesn't finalize a disc after every recording since the user may have recorded only few minutes. When the media is full, then it is time to finalize.

To finalize, download the manual and on page 35 there are the instructions.
(or use the hard copy that came with your drive).
 
HB13DISH said:
Hello Topper.

I see that you have the same Sony DVD recorder model RDR-GX210 that RCP has. Here is your chance to sell it at twice the price that you paid. ;)
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Why would I want to sell it?, it works perfectly all the family know how to use it without problems, it does everything it claimed to on the label

HB13DISH said:
Assuming that you have also many recorded DVDs which are not finalized, then I would recommend to finalize them so that they can play in any standalone DVD player or a PC DVD drive. Just in case your machine might stop working all of a sudden.
The finalization would create files into the DVD media, in a standard fashion.

What you have described can be thought of as like a saving process and not a finalization.
Obviously the recorder doesn't finalize a disc after every recording since the user may have recorded only few minutes. When the media is full, then it is time to finalize.

To finalize, download the manual and on page 35 there are the instructions.
(or use the hard copy that came with your drive).
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Why on earth would I want to go to all that trouble when I can play them wherever I want to already. The whole idea for our family is that we can record what we want and watch it at our leisure in whatever player we want in whatever room we want this already works without all that pallarva, then as we use RW DVDs we can wipe and re-record any we may wish to make permanent we could easily do so but thanks for your concern.
 
RCP said:
Anyway, I now have a duff Sony DVD recorder and about a hundred unfinalised DVD's, and this makes me very annoyed, and made me wonder and ask this seemingly very simple question....
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Have you opened up the Sony unit to see the DVD drive? It may be possible to replace it with a standard PC type. It may not be a permanent solution but it may allow you to finalise the disks you have
 
pgh13 said:
Have you opened up the Sony unit to see the DVD drive? It may be possible to replace it with a standard PC type. It may not be a permanent solution but it may allow you to finalise the disks you have
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Please see post #9
The problem with this would be that the software of the recorder which will look for the exact model number and firmware whenever it switches on.
But there is nothing to lose by trying this, if you have a spare DVD writer, preferably a Sony one.
 
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