ProDisc Digital Audio CDR Media is designed for use in Home Entertainment Center CD Recorders such as the Phillips 765 and 870 or the Pioneer PDR-V500 Recorders. ~These recorders do not use standard CDR media. They require media that conforms to the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) format. The purpose of SCMS is to protect the copyright of recorded CDs. Recorders that support the SCMS standard are designed to only work with Digital Audio media that supports the SCMS format.

SCMS allows a perfect duplicate copy of a CD to be made. Once recorded, it will play in any CD player just as the disc from which it is copied. However, the recorded disc cannot be used to generate a copy of itself. This “copy of a copy” protection is the purpose of the SCMS recording mode.