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DVD Camcorder

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free2beat712

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Need -

DVD camcorder between $300-$500

Requirements:

Durable; long battery life; small; good brand

Uses:

I need to record a TON of family events coming up and want it for a vacation next year.

Any advice is welcome - I'm totally lost in this situation.

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You REALLY don't want one. Especially one of the Sonys. If you use non-Sony discs, the camera WILL require servicing to remove the non-Sony disc, at which time Sony will discontinue your manufacturer warranty. Sony discs are $15 each. I've seen it happen. Buy a MiniDV camcorder, you will be much happier in the end.
 
The sony advice is good - I don't want something thats going to break down if I use other discs. I figured DVD would be good for recording a lot of stuff and for editing later on. Any suggestions?
 
dvd esp mini dvd has far too little space for video. single layer full size dvd is only 4gb after all. i forget how many gb dv tape is, but its atleast several times that. so they sacrifice video quality😛 mini dvd is like 1.5 gb or something,its truely pathetic. its not necessary anymore either, since laptop harddrives are huge now, and cheap, and small, so new dv cams have a laptop drive in them and that just blows away a dvd cam. dvd cam is good for recording a tinyamount of stuff for instant playback nothing else. camcorders do 1 pass recording, so you can't expect miracles of compression from them. those divx files and such we have that look decent at low bitrate use mpeg4, and are two pass encodes. same with dvds with mpeg2. mini dv tape and such use a much higher constnat bitrate to preserve quality when recording real time.
 
Originally posted by: free2beat712
The sony advice is good - I don't want something thats going to break down if I use other discs. I figured DVD would be good for recording a lot of stuff and for editing later on. Any suggestions?
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Do you really plan on editing the DVD on your camcorder?

MiniDV > DVD

MiniDV connects to your PC's FireWire port, edit the video then burn it to DVD.
 
So I have a IBM thinkpad with centrino. Its a little old, but I'm just worried about storage and how long it will actually take to transfer the files. I do not have USB 2.0 nor do I have firewire. Do you think I will have any problems with MiniDV?
 
Do MiniDVs also use less power because they record straight to a hard drive? Or do you think the two are comparable. I know most of the power is used up on the LCD, but I was wondering how the two compared there.
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