I want to talk about the E80 and FR mode there are two ways you can use it. One way lets say I record Star Wars on XP one hour mode and I want to get it to fit on one DVD-R well there no way eight gigs will fit on to a DVD-R so there is FR mode that let for a recode to to make it fit. I can aslo recode to EP mode thats the six hour mode. On to the DVD-R. But almost ever one that uses E80 will pick FR mode to recode it looks at how long the video is and picks the best bitrate to do a rencode.

Now for the second way you can use FR mode SP is the two hour mode even after two hours it is still records if you do not turn it off but files get to big to fit on DVD-R. So I use FR mode record in real time. Return of the Jedi is 2 hours and 13 after the 2 hours and 13 minutes Panasonic E80 will stop recording. The great thing about FR mode is that I do not have to record in LP thats the four hour mode.

I can record Return of the Jedi in just SP mode but I have the lock problems where the LDs get flipped. Again this problem is onlly on OLD DVD players. But I want to make a set that any DVD player will play.