Page 1 of Swisstec DVR1028 - Formatting Blank Discs

Does anyone know how to do this? The manual is not very helpful.

I insert a blank DVD RW and it recognises it as BLANk. It does not seem to do anything else. If I then record something, it appears to do it, and at the end it post processes for a short while.

When I take the disc and put in a PC or other player, they claim the disc is blank !!. If I then put it back into the Swisstec it also then claims it is blank. What am I missing?

How do I get the disc formatted for recording? Can anyone enlighten me.

Thanks in advance.

Hi I have the swisstec too.
I have found that it intermittently fails to record on +RW although on +R it seems fine.
I have found TDK+RW discs (recommended by user on Digital Spy) to be slightly more reliable than the variety of other brands tried.
According to the manufacture SOGON.CN website, loader (DVDRW drive) used is Philips.
You are not doing anything wrong, if you see red dot in blue square, top left corner over picture whilst recording, and leave alone whilst Post Processing takes place, programme should be on disc, ready to play in most machines.

Without removing disc after recording, try playing it then.
(i) If it tells you it`s blank you need either try different brand disc or else return recorder as faulty.
(ii) If you see title screen with correct index thumbnail, recording has been successful.
(iii) If thumbnail is corrupted, recording has taken place but much of the programme may be unwatchable. This requires one of the actions in (i).

Best of luck.