DMR-E85H Speed

[bobaber]

I'm still learning, be kind to me. I read from other posts that people are burning at 4x, 8x, 16x or some other speed. I can not find anything in the instruction manual that says what speed I am burning at. It makes a reference that the HDD is running a four times something. Is the burn speed somehow selectable on my unit or is it set to one speed. Thanks
Bobaber

[Synergy]

First, don't compare the burning speed on a DVD burner in a computer setting with the recording speed on a standalone recorder such as yours. When you record from all video sources through the input or the built-in tuner, the recording speed is always in real-time (1X). Only when you transfer the recorded programs from HDD (normally after editing) to DVD media, your machine allows you to transfer at 4X to DVD-R and 2X to DVD-RAM media, but you have to set the 'DVD-R High Speed Recording" to "On" before you can do any high speed dubbing. It's explained on pages 36 and 41 in your owner's manual. Also you have to use 4X rated DVD-R discs for high speed dubbing.

[bobaber]

Thanks Synergy
I sort had that Idea but I wasn't sure and I could not find find anything that had numbers with it. I have learned from this forum to record in FR, especially on two hour plus movies and to dub in high speed. I havn't had any coasters yet and everything seems to be alright. I just ordered a Epson R200 and Taiyo Yuden printable disks, I made the mistake of putting the sticky paper labels on about 50 movies before I learned about their problems in this forum. Thanks for the straight poop on my unit.
Bobaber

[Synergy]

Glad I could help. You may also want to check out the the AVS Forum occasionally since people there are more "Panasonic friendly" than some here:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?s=05b3a5cef3b18479a8d113b09eccd034&forumid=106