These can be stored in your library as-is, and ripped to a PC for re-authoring or hard drive playback. If all you wanted to do was get recordings off your Pioneer HDD and keep them, probably the simplest thing to do is make normal finalized DVD-R disc. As jjeff and tonypeter mentioned, you can also use RAM discs if your PC drive/software supports this, as well as +RW without finalizing if your PC setup can handle that. This creates a "normal" DVD structure most PC software can work with, play, archive or deconstruct, and after copying to the PC you can erase/reuse the RW disc. Exit the setup menus and go into the Copy menu, select the recordings you want to back up, but before hitting the Start button choose Finalize- a selection of menu screens will appear, choose one and disc burning will begin. Load a blank -RW, go into the Home Menu, select Disc Setup, click on Initialize Disc, and choose the "video mode format" button. ![]() If you want to move videos from the Pioneer to your PC for more elaborate authoring, its better to make normal finalized DVD-RW discs instead. DVD+RW has been standardized on all recorders as a more generic VR variant, so its compatible with any hardware that can play +RW. Note that Pioneer VR mode DVD-R, DVD+R and DVD-RW will not play on a normal dvd player and computers will have trouble reading them: they are strictly for recorder use. When Pioneer DVDs are formatted as VR, they retain the same file format as the recorder hard drive, so at a later time you can high speed copy the video files back to the HDD as if they'd never been deleted. However you CAN back up the files at lossless high speed to RW or R discs, if you tell the recorder to format the discs as VR (this is automatic on +RW but you'll need to manually go into the Disc Setup>Format menu to select VR on a blank -R or +R). ![]() There is no way to copy videos from the recorder HDD to an external HDD or PC that will keep those files in the native, editable, "live" Pioneer format. Ignore the feature card glued to the unit and any remarks in the instruction manual that concern anything beyond recording from television sources or a camcorder: like every other DVD/HDD machine sold in th North America, the Pioneers obey Hollywood dictates against direct video file transfers to a PC or external hard drive. The features are extremely limited and/or don't work at all: any claims of USB-PC utility are completely specious and the Ethernet port on the 660 is a joke without a punchline. I'm probably the biggest booster here of Pioneer recorders, I've been using-repairing-upgrading them since 2004, but even I have to admit they made some pretty bogus and vague claims about "PC connectivity" and "multimedia jukebox" features on the x50 and 圆0 model series.
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