Sidewinder3
Novice Member
I have used my Panasonic BWT850 almost to capacity in recording and am now ready to copy things of the hard drive to blu-ray. I have never done any recording (dvd or blu-ray) so am stuck on a couple of basic issues. Firstly, I have read a lot about the various options of speed of blank blu-rays (4x, 6x etc) but everywhere mentions the importance of matching the disc speed to your particular drive speed. I assume people meant that most blu-ray recorders will tell you that they copy in 4x, 6x etc?? There is nowhere online or in the manual that tells me the panasonic's drive speed. The copy options are either 'normal' or 'high speed'. With no specific information of what speed this is, how am I supposed to know what blank disc speed to buy? I don't want to wing it and hope for the best. So I am hoping there will be an owner out there who knows what the panasonic's actual copy speed is in either normal or high speed mode?
Also, again to any panasonic blu-ray recorder owners, which mode is better to copy in anyway- their high speed mode or normal? I am not bothered by length of time taken. All my recordings for copying are HD. I can't find info as to whether either mode reduces the original quality in any way, but suspect one is probably better than the other. Any ideas?
In case it is of any use I will be using BD-R single-sided discs, (preferably Panasonic if I can find any non-Japanese import ones)
Also, again to any panasonic blu-ray recorder owners, which mode is better to copy in anyway- their high speed mode or normal? I am not bothered by length of time taken. All my recordings for copying are HD. I can't find info as to whether either mode reduces the original quality in any way, but suspect one is probably better than the other. Any ideas?
In case it is of any use I will be using BD-R single-sided discs, (preferably Panasonic if I can find any non-Japanese import ones)