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Enough With the Tapes: Record Video to DVD

Why would anyone want to record their home videos to tapes at this point? When was the last time you watched a video from a tape? Or stuck a tape in your computer? Don’t remember? Me either. That’s why I always wonder why people are so eager to go out and buy camcorders that record to what is, at this point, a dying format. Why not record to something you’ll actually find convenient?

Samsung’s SC-DC173 DVD Camcorder does just that, recording video to regular old DVDs that you can watch on your TV or pop into your computer. No fast forwarding or rewinding is necessary, and you can even add chapter breaks while you’re shooting. It just makes more sense than dealing with converting, rewinding, fast forwarding, erasing, and storing stacks of tapes that you’ll then never touch again. Keep things up to date. Stick with DVDs.

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Published by Adam on June 7th, 2007 and listed in Home Entertainment.

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Mike 06/13/2007 10:43 AM 1 point
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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.

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Frank R Seymour 06/12/2007 05:37 PM 1 point
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The price is not shown with the recorder.

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Frank R Seymour 06/12/2007 05:36 PM 1 point
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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

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Vadim 06/11/2007 03:10 PM 1 point
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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.

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