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Hey folks, (Sorry for long post)
Totally wet behind the ears when it comes to Home DVD recorders, but my wife says the time may have come so that we can put all our home movies from my Hi8 camcorder onto DVD's. Oh and my sister said she'd like the same thing (have me transfer home videos to DVD)
The BIG question is do I choose a Panasonic E50 or one of the Philips??
I don't think I can go for the Hard Drive models, so let's just talk about the "basic" models here.
Does the Panny E50/60 offer a way to edit the camcorder movies and most important, allow me to create a table of contents and chapter search on the discs?
I see the Philips R75 has editing capbilities to make chapters etc.
Here's another point of confusion for me...Which foramt will be the "SAFEST" to own for compatability ? I realize some discs may have a harder time in some machines (brands), but reading various articles, I'm almost inclined to go with +R /RW because every article says it will play in almost EVERY DVD player vs. -R/RW which says is MAY work in many DVD players.
I just don't want to spend a bunch of time and money making family videos and finding out the disc is useless on their DVD player at home.
Does anyone have any direct experience with the above metioned topics..if so I'd love to hear from you.
Best Buy has a 24 Month No Interest deal this week so the Mrs. is 99% sold on me getting one this week.
Thanks for all your help!
Alfer
Totally wet behind the ears when it comes to Home DVD recorders, but my wife says the time may have come so that we can put all our home movies from my Hi8 camcorder onto DVD's. Oh and my sister said she'd like the same thing (have me transfer home videos to DVD)
The BIG question is do I choose a Panasonic E50 or one of the Philips??
I don't think I can go for the Hard Drive models, so let's just talk about the "basic" models here.
Does the Panny E50/60 offer a way to edit the camcorder movies and most important, allow me to create a table of contents and chapter search on the discs?
I see the Philips R75 has editing capbilities to make chapters etc.
Here's another point of confusion for me...Which foramt will be the "SAFEST" to own for compatability ? I realize some discs may have a harder time in some machines (brands), but reading various articles, I'm almost inclined to go with +R /RW because every article says it will play in almost EVERY DVD player vs. -R/RW which says is MAY work in many DVD players.
I just don't want to spend a bunch of time and money making family videos and finding out the disc is useless on their DVD player at home.
Does anyone have any direct experience with the above metioned topics..if so I'd love to hear from you.
Best Buy has a 24 Month No Interest deal this week so the Mrs. is 99% sold on me getting one this week.
Thanks for all your help!
Alfer