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4.0 out of 5 stars
Does exactly what it says on the tin - but read tin carefully!, 5 July 2008
This review is from: Canon DW-100 DVD Burner (Electronics)
There must be many people like me, who have graduated to HD camcorders and who have pondered long and hard about what to do with their AVCHD footage. To edit or not and, if so, what editing app to use. To try burning you own DVDs from unedited footage. What to play your DVDs on. The list of questions is endless.
One relatively simple way forward is to get a Canon DW-100. I can confirm that this does what it's claimed to do, at least with Canon camcorders. It records your AVCHD footage direct to DVD in it's original quality. The resulting disc is playable on the Playstation 3 or Blu Ray player. But if your intention is to produce DVD videos that are playable on standard DVD players, then you will have to record your original footage at a lower quality. In the case of the Canon HF10, this means XP mode or lower. However, having bought an HD camcorder, who would want to do this? I bought mine for state-of-the-art video quality, and keep it on the highest quality setting. I can view the recorded footage on PS3 - family and friends will just have to get Blu Ray players!
As for editing AVCHD footage, that will have to wait for the quantum computer..... it really isn't worth the effort at the moment.
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A bit limited for the money, 11 Jan 2009
This review is from: Canon DW-100 DVD Burner (Electronics)
If you're looking for a quick and easy way to transfer SD and HD recordings to DVD (inluding dual layer) without using a computer, this does what it says on the tin. However, it has some serious limitations. The first is that you can't change the names of your recordings or label the disc, so when you play back your disc, the menu just shows a list of the dates the recordings were made, which is very basic. The second is that you can't add to a disc once you've moved across some recordings, because the burner automatically finalises the disc. The manual implies that it depends on the size and number of files as to whether the disc is finalised, but I transferred two short scenes to test the burner and it still finalised the disc. This isn't too much of a problem if the disc is rewritable - you can just redo the copy with extra scenes later - but is a real issue with non-rewritable discs. The third limitation is that it only works with -R, -R DL and -RW discs, not +R, +R DL or +RW.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
an easy way to archive your hd videos, 25 Mar 2009
This review is from: Canon DW-100 DVD Burner (Electronics)
This hd burner was purchased to archive video in high definition taken with a Canon HG 10 Camcorder. It does exactly that and is easy to use.
Quality of playback is excellent. However remember that high definition
storage requires space namely 3 dvd discs for 1 hour and a half of video footage.
No editing facility is available but for personal use this is not a disadvantage.
An excellent product
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