finalizing disc in pioneer 533-hs

[pantangs]

I cant believe how long it takes this pioneer recorder to finalize a disc.I recorded one hour of television which took twenty minutes to finalize yikes.My other sharp dvd recorder Dv-Sr45uc can finalize two hours of television in five minutes or less.Why does it take so long for this machine.i was goint to unload my sharp machine but now will hold on to it just in case the pioneer gives me more problems i dont want

[Zen of Encoding]

I cant believe how long it takes this pioneer recorder to finalize a disc.I recorded one hour of television which took twenty minutes to finalize yikes.My other sharp dvd recorder Dv-Sr45uc can finalize two hours of television in five minutes or less.Why does it take so long for this machine.i was goint to unload my sharp machine but now will hold on to it just in case the pioneer gives me more problems i dont want

I suspect that the pioneer DVD drive in your recorder and/or it's firmware
doesn't like the DVD media you are using.

What brand & speed of DVD media are you using? OR better yet, what's the
manufacturer I.D./media code of the discs?

[DeepOne]

Your Sharp recorder doesn't have a hard drive; does it? I wonder if you're confusing finalizing a disc (with a program already on it) with copying from the hard drive to the DVD and finalizing - because 20 minutes is about how long it would take to write 1 hour of SP video at 2x speed (DVD-RW) and finalize it. The finalization alone should only take a minute or so.

[pantangs]

The disc i finalized was not transferred from the hard drive at all.I had recorded some kids programs direct to disc days before so i wanted to finalize them.The kids wanted to watch them on there own player.When i went in to do that it took twenty minutes.I am using maxell 8x writeable discs so i dont know what happened.yes on my sharp there is no hard drive and a two hour disc took about five minutes to finalize.I had eight different shows on that disc to.