I have a sony vx525 how do i finalize a dvd after recording from vhs to dvd / i can't find the manual

On your remote Press the System Menu botton when open scroll down to Setup, press Enter, scroll down to Video and press enter another menu will open. Scroll down to Personal and press enter and play with settings while watching the Video you want to make changes to, until you are Satisfied__!

the manual is here, so you should have all the codes there:
http://angrytechblog.com/2011/02/how-to-one-touch-dub-vhs-to-dvd-on-the-sony-rdr-vx525/

what happened was that you probably chose a disc speed on the DVD that was too fast or slow for the dvd players that you are putting it in to. Try re recording it but when under the DVD section, on your remote, choose REC Mode till it says SP. That one should work on just about any dvd player. I had the same problem with mine. Here is a step by step instruction on how to dub from VHS to DVD correctly. If you follow all the steps, you should be fine :) http://angrytechblog.com/2011/02/how-to-one-touch-dub-vhs-to-dvd-on-the-sony-rdr-vx525/

You forgot to finalize the Disc. Here is my post on how to finalize it.
http://angrytechblog.com/2011/02/how-to-one-touch-dub-vhs-to-dvd-on-the-sony-rdr-vx525/

Did you finalize the Disc? You need to go to the system settings and select finalize disc while the CD is in the drive. For more details, check out this blog post: http://angrytechblog.com/2011/02/how-to-one-touch-dub-vhs-to-dvd-on-the-sony-rdr-vx525/

here is a how to I mad just for this issue: http://angrytechblog.com/2011/02/how-to-one-touch-dub-vhs-to-dvd-on-the-sony-rdr-vx525/

Yeah, its a pain in the ****. The instructions to fix are here: http://angrytechblog.com/2011/02/how-to-one-touch-dub-vhs-to-dvd-on-the-sony-rdr-vx525/

You must be aware of the disc you use for recording. You better used DVD+R for better works. Will you please state, what kind of disc you used? the in put manuals? or you might forget to turn the analog/digital switcher?

can's do commercial, write protected movies.

I have seen this on other players as well. What happens is the media your recording on is either too slow for the player and the player is recording faster than the media is supposed to handle. For some reason it works on the machine it was recorded on but nothing else.

Solution: Get media that matches the speed of the player.

If this is not the solution let me know I will get you one.

Rob