Cannot finalize

[glen4cindy]

Hope someone can help me with this issue.

I have a Sanyo DVDR-4000 set-top DVD Recorder. I was saving to a DVD from a DirecTivo the other night. I had about 4 hours recorded on the DVD-R with about 1 1/2 hours left on the DVD. About 5 minutes into recording on the remaining 1 1/2 hours, there was some sort of error, and after sitting there for about 3 to 4 minutes, it came up with 0 hours remaining, but still only about 4 hours used. So, since there was this issue, I tried to go ahead and finalize the disc so it could be used in a plain DVD player, but, I got the error message CANNOT FINALIZE.

So, now, I am stuck. I cannot give this DVD to the person I was recording stuff for because they don't have a DVD Recorder. This disc will not even read in my PC DVD-RW drive, but, it will read in the set-top DVD Recorder. Any ideas on how to get this material transferred off of here without trashing the qulaity? Thanks!

[louthewiz]

What was the program and why don't you just do another recording, the same happens to me when I get a coaster that's why I never erase anything off my panny E-80H's hard drive until I got all I need and finalize the dvd then I erase it.

[glen4cindy]

Yes, this is one place where I was not very smart.

I ****stupidly******ignored******* the "little voice in my head" that suggested I not delete the showings until I was sucessful in creating the DVD. A couple of the items are still on the HD of the Tivo, and a couple of them are not. I had recorded some showings of Air Emergency and Seconds From Disaster that profiled Airline Crash Investigations. This guy is a general aviation pilot who no longer flies, but, is interested in these types of documentaries as I am. Maybe the ones that I already deleted will be aired again sometime.

I have learned my lesson though, I will not do this again!

[Captain Satellite]

On my E80H, I can play unfinalized discs on the player side, record on the hard drive and make another copy.