DMR-E20 to Pioneer A104

[anton]

I use the DMR-E20 for recording of basic stuff that does not require fancy menus. Then, if I want further copies, I copy the VIDEO_TS folder to my hard drive and burn a copy with the Pioneer A104. The resulting DVD has NO menu on settop players, but works fine on any computer DVD drive???? However, the settop players play the video when play button is pushed. I have compared the contents of bothe VIDEO_TS folders and they are exactly the same. Anyone come across this yet?

[arealgijoe]

:P

I have a Panasonic E-30 DVD recorder, I love it, and I use a DVD burnner to make copies. I do NOT even your the hard drive for data, I make a COPY from one DVD to another. I have an old early creative DVD-ROM and reads the E-30 DVD-R dicks just fine. My burnner is an older 1x DVD-R/DVD-RAM model. The copies are just that COPIES with all the menues etc, just like the original recorded on the E-30.

Works 4 me. Just pop in the DVD-R from the E-30 into the DVD-ROM and a blank in the burnner and Nero away.

J E

[anton]

Thanks, I will get a DVD Rom drive, then I won't need to copy to the hard drive in the first place. Hopefully that will work.

[arealgijoe]

When I got my DVD-R/RAm burnner I originally pulled the DVD-ROM out and replaced it with the DVD _R/ram burnner, installed the softwaere and tried ti out. Then I go to thinking, Whay no put teh DVD-ROM back in, ahd to pull the CD-RW drive though, and try a disk to disk copy. Worked just fine, just as easy as copying a CD. No problems and no complaints, I have copied several dozzen DVDs (from teh E-30) that way.

One problem, unrelated is that my DVD-RAM drive is not compatable format wise with my E-30.

j E

[anton]

I now have a DVD-Rom drive and the Pioneer AO4, I tried duplicating the DMR-E20 disk all possible ways, always get invalid media errors. Panasonic told me that a DMR-E20 DVD can't be duplicated by any computer in the world! I asked them to take my DMR-E20 back and give me the money back. If they do, remains to be seen.

[ejai]

I made a duplicate copy of my E-30 dvd-r using a Pioneer a03 and it works fine. Yet there is one noticable difference, when I put the copy in my dvd player it doesn't start playing immediately. I have to hit the play button twice, then the movie plays with all the chapter points working fine.

I tried it in several dvd players and it works, but I have to press the play button twice.