[Vintage-Audio] OT Toshiba 620

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Thank you Bob. It has some features that I was not previously aware of.

Yes, it does offer an automatic finalize feature. To my knowledge, the 
entire DVD must be 'full' for this feature to be useable. If a DVD is only 
partly full, the manual finalize must be used. At least that is how it was 
'read' to me. Perhaps it was incorrect?

I tried to manually finalize the DVD, but it did not work.

One possible cause: I was told to press "Setup". Then to press the down 
button four times. This should have put me in the DVD Menu. Then I had to 
press 'enter'. Next I had to press the down button twice, which put me on 
the "finalize' menu. There I pressed 'enter' again. Then I was asked if I 
really wanted to finalize it etc. Y/N. YES being the first choice, NO being 
the second one. I assumed that the first choice was highlighted by default, 
so I dutifully pressed 'enter' again.

This procedure failed. Obviously I am doing something wrong, or the person 
who read me the instructions from the manual by phone from OH missed a step.

Duane, W8DBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "wolfbob" <wolfbob at csnsys.com>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] OT Toshiba 620


> >From B&H ad.
>
>
>
> Moreover, this recorder offers incredible features that will be hard to
> match at this price point. One-touch recording, auto finalize with undo,
> component video output, and 54MHz/10-bit video processing. Watch still 
> JPEG
> photos, or even listen to your favorite CDs, MP3 or WMA files. It offers 
> the
> flexibility of viewing either your VHS or multi-format DVDs, and ability 
> to
> record DVD to VHS or vice-versa with bi-directional dubbing. Its built-in
> 4-head Hi-Fi VCR offers (2) recording speeds (SP/SLP), V-chip and timer
> recording capabilities, and convenient front-panel S-Video and RCA analog
> audio inputs.
>
>
>
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
> To: <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 12:02 PM
> Subject: [Vintage-Audio] OT Toshiba 620
>
>
>>
>>
>> OT -
>>
>> I need some assistance from one of you familiar with the Toshiba model 
>> 620
>> VHS/DVD deck. I am using it to dub VHS tapes to DVDS.
>>
>> This unit used a minus R disk.
>>
>> My problem? I can not figure out how to finalize the completed DVD. There
>> are no buttons on the unit itself for this purpose. Hence, there must be
>> one
>> on the remote. But where?
>>
>> What I need is for one of you to tell me how to finalize a DVD with the
>> Toshiba 620. Keeping in mind that I am totally blind, please do not tell
>> me
>> to look at the display ... (LOL!) Just give me the step by step procedure
>> and I will finger out the rest. (Pardon the pun!)
>>
>> If I need to press the down arrow button two times and then press enter,
>> just say so.
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help. Needless to say, but the Toshiba
>> technical assistance folks were not very helpful. "You are blind?" Click
>> ...
>>
>>
>> Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
>> E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
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