NEED A BETTER DIGITAL CAMERA

[Alan L.]

Trescrows, if DVD recorders go down to $175 in a year, believe me, you will get your money's worth out of the $275 difference in that time. I have a Panasonic E60s and its great. I've converted about 80 VHS videos so far, and have recorded about 40 movies off of TIVO. In fact we are watching one of them right now. It is GREAT!!!!!

I paid about $440 for the recorder on the internet. You can get one with a hard drive for about $650, but with TIVO I didn't find that necessary.

 

[TresCrows]

"Trescrows, if DVD recorders go down to $175 in a year, believe me, you will get your money's worth out of the $275 difference in that time. I have a Panasonic E60s and its great. I've converted about 80 VHS videos so far, and have recorded about 40 movies off of TIVO. In fact we are watching one of them right now. It is GREAT!!!!!"

Alan, your logic is similar to that I usually use to convince my wife I need a new toy. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif. So far this time she is holding resolute. I am still working on her. Of course, I could just go get it without her /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif but I find buying things like that much more fun when we do it together /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif.
Yes, in any case, I have a bunch of Lazer Discs and SVHS widescreen movies to convert to DVD. I fear my Lazer Disc player might give out on me or my SVHS player so I use them sparingly for now until I get the DVDR unit. I bought a DVD Sony two years ago and it recnetly went TU. I went and bought another one better than it, also a Sony, and it was half the cost of the first. More than the money I fear the first generation stuff may not be as good as what will come very soon. I hear the current Sony unit does not have the picture quality their standard players have--is this true--how is your picture quality etc. Alan? J

 

[_RaT_]

I have a almost brand new MDP disc player made by Sony you could have for quite cheap. I used it a few times to play cd's. Actually, I also have a Pioneer DVD, Laser Disc player as well.

 

[mikim]

<font color="blue"> they need to move the filters out from the lens, so they make u get a tube to extend it out? </font>
yeah - i guess - When the tube & UV filter are on - the zoom moves back & forth inside the tube - i actually like it that way - protects the real lens and the zoom mechanism from dirt etc

 

[Alan L.]

The picture quality from my DVD recorder is excellent. It is noticeably better than the picture we get when we play DVDs in the Sanyo DVD/VHS combo unit I got at Sam's a year or so ago.

Right now I have made about 160 DVDs, including home movies and movies off of TIVO. We have played them in several different computers, DVD players, etc and they work just fine in all of them. Plus, I can recall only one failure in all of those DVDs.

Now, I am wishing I had gotten the one with the hard drive, so that I could cut commercials out quickly before burning to DVD-R media. Oh well.... I'm still extremely happy with it.