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Re: Enough With the Tapes: Record Video to DVD

Mike — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:43:37 -0000

The quality of a Mini DV tape is actually better than the DVD's depending on how much you spend of course. I like to edit my videos and the tapes do a much better job at this. You can only record 30 minutes of video on a DVD unless you have the double sided ones. You cannot just take them out of the camcorder and play them on a DVD player until they are finalized. Once they are finalized, you cannot record on them again like you can with tapes. They also have to be formatted before you can actually record on them. As far as convenience goes, you can easily just hook up the mini DV's to a TV and watch them, but most of the time you just watch them on the LCD screen of your camcorder anyway. If it is a special event you have recorded, then they can be easily transferred to a full size DVD, and if you like, you can add all sorts of effects to it to make it better. I just bought a new JVC Mini DV camcorder for $179. You can't get a DVD camcorder for that cost. I would jump up to a Hard drive camcorder before I would get a DVD if I had the money. For $179, my camcorder does what I need it to do.

Re: Enough With the Tapes: Record Video to DVD

Frank R Seymour — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:37:26 -0000

The price is not shown with the recorder.

Re: Enough With the Tapes: Record Video to DVD

Frank R Seymour — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:36:17 -0000

I would love to own one of these video recorders, if I could afford it!
I'm retired military and on fixed income. This would be great for recording the mischief of my grand kids. Wishful thinking!

Thanks

Re: Enough With the Tapes: Record Video to DVD

Vadim — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:10:08 -0000

Stick with DVDs ?! Are you kidding? Flash memory is the king! With 8GB card is a norm these days and 16 and even 32 GB are coming in the near future, there is no comparison between flash cards and other media in camcorders (DVD, HDD, tapes, etc)
During my recent trip to the West coast, I was able to write almost 2 hours of high quality video (MPEG2) on 8GB SD card using Panasonic SDR-150 camcorder.