User manual BENQ DW800A

[. . . ] When a DVD player or DVD-ROM drive loads a DVD disc, it queries this information field to determine which format specification the loaded media is configured to. The BenQ Book Type Management tool allows the book type format specification information for recordable DVD media to be easily altered. [. . . ] In the majority of cases, you will not need to change the book type of your DVD media, as most DVD players and DVD-ROM drives have no problem reading recordable DVD media. However, some players (especially older models) cannot recognize discs that are characterized as DVD+RW/-RW or DVD+R/-R book types. In these instances, this compatibility issue can be easily resolved by changing the book type of the DVD media being written to DVD-ROM. If you use Nero v5. 5. 10. 50 or newer version to burn to your DVD media, the book type change to the drive will become invalid. Please refer to the FAQ on the installation disc for further details. Book Type Management applies to DVD+R/RW discs only. The drive's current setting is configured to write a DVD+RW media as DVD+RW book type, and DVD+R media as DVD+R book type). E-2 Step 2. Click the "Set to DVD-ROM Type" buttons to change the drive's current writing book type for DVD+R/+RW media to become DVD-ROM book type. Once the drive's writing book type is changed, it will always write a DVD+RW/-R media as the programmed book type. Apply the same procedure if you want to change the drive's writing book type back to the previous one. The "Check Drive" option (used to preset the drive to write to DVD+R/+RW media as DVD-ROM booktype) should be used when writing in Disk-at-Once (DAO) mode only. Please do not select the "Check Drive" option if writing in alternative modes where you will appended more data to the same disk at a later time. E-3 Option 2: Check the current book type of a DVD+R disc, and check and change the current book type of a DVD+RW disc Step 1. Insert a previously recorded DVD+R/+RW disc into the BenQ DVD rewriter, then click the "Check Media" button to see the current book type of this media. a pre-recorded DVD+RW disc is set as DVD+RW book type) Because DVD+R media is write-once only, you CANNOT change the book type of a DVD+R disc after it has been recorded. [. . . ] a pre-recorded DVD+RW disc is set as DVD+RW book type) Because DVD+R media is write-once only, you CANNOT change the book type of a DVD+R disc after it has been recorded. In order to write a DVD+R disc as DVD-ROM book type, you must set the writing book type of the DVD rewriter to the DVD-ROM book type prior to writing onto the DVD+R disc. E-4 Step 2. [. . . ]