Very Nice! | Sony VRDMC6 DVDirect Compact Size DVD Burner with AVCHD Recording

Non-techie figured it out and is really pleased | Sony VRDMC6 DVDirect Compact Size DVD Burner with AVCHD Recording

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	• Sony VRDMC6 DVDirect Compact Size DVD Burner with AVCHD Recording Sony Sony average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Save the Old and save space.

The Sony VRDMC6 DVD Burner is a great way to expand your DVD library from your VHS personal collection,(will not copy copyrighted material.) Save your wedding or vacation videos, tansfer your memory stick etc to CD. Simple and easy to use. Save a favorite TV or Cable show.

Very Nice!

Well worth the money. After having wasted money on a Toshiba DR420 DVD Recorder, Black and an Easycap USB Video Capture Adapter, I was getting a bit gun shy and short on cash. This recorder is not only very easy to use, but, the DVD's that it burns are easily recognised by my other equipment without any errors.

I use Verbatim® DVD+R Discs, 4.7GB, 16x, Spindle, 100/Pack.

I do not have any Sony memory sticks or a Sony Handicam. I bought this to burn DVD's from all of my other cameras via the composite cable connectors. Primarily, I needed a way to transfer video from my Canon ZR80 DV camcorder to my PC via DVD; I found the quality of the video and audio that is reproduced with this burner to be equal to the source input. Very nice, very easy to use, fast and quiet.

As far as size and weight, this item is not much larger than a personal CD player. And, the small menu and built monitor screen is crystal clear and plenty large enough to view. The menu screen is so intuitive that the instruction book is (for me) optional reading material.

I keep this burner in a zippered camera case to keep it dust free and safe. When I use it, I place it before me on a table or desktop and treat it as gently as I would a notebook PC, rather than shelving it like a DVD player or an old VCR. It is now a camera accessory and is handled in the same manner as my cameras.

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Non-techie figured it out and is really pleased

I'm a teacher and not very technically savvy, and I am thrilled with this product. I needed to convert my vast VHS library of teaching materials to DVD format. This product is working perfectly. There are just a few points I might add that I did not see in the reviews I read. I think some are so obvious that anyone with technical experience might not have thought they needed mentioning. First, if you are trying to convert plain old VHS tapes, you'll need a VCR. I didn't have one, and I actually thought (not understanding the scale of the photo of the product) that the tapes would go IN this machine. The good news is, you only need a VCR and one cord with red, yellow and white plugs. This will not tie up your TV. You play the tape into the converter. The converter has a small screen that lets you see where in the tape the converter is "reading". The other really cool part is that you can "edit" out parts of your VHS tapes you don't want (in my case, commercials embedded in videos). You just hit the pause button to skip those parts. The one thing mentioned in earlier reviews that I would just like to reiterate is that you need to change the recording quality setting from HQ to SP. This will give you 2 hours of video on each disc, as opposed to just over 1 hour and 20 or so minutes. Finally, you should buy DVD-R type DVDs. I lost some time trying to figure out the difference between DVD+r and DVD-R.

This is a great product and there really isn't anything quite like it on the market!

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Very easy to use...still has one dumb limitation

This is a very easy to use recorder and handles many modes. Great for those times you just want to dump video to DVD without any hassles.

This model (just like the last one) does have one really STUPID limitation that you have to read the manual to uncover. It allows you to connect your HD hard drive camcorder via USB to the device - Great you say! It also allows you to record to Dual Layer DVDs (perfect you say). Perfect because those HD camcorders eat up space, and the dual layer discs have the highest capacity. So then why does the following appear in the manual?

"Usable discs differ depending on recording method (page 75). (For example, a video stored on a camera connected with a USB cable cannot be recorded to DVD+R DL disc.)"

How dumb is this! The highest capacity camcorders cannot record to the highest capacity discs! I was hoping they had overcome this moronic limitation from the last version, but alas they have not.

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I wish I hadn't wait so long to use it - I can't return it now

The first main problem is that this only records one hour of video, and my tapes are an hour and a half long.
That means I either have to hang around to the hour mark, and then stand there and watch the camera and stop it when the DVD is full, or I have to rewind back to the 60 minute mark and start another DVD from there.

There is something wrong with the software in this machine. I have to unplug it and restart it again for every tape. For some reason, it does not reset properly, and does not recognize the input from the camera once it has been stopped. I have to unplug and disconnect everything. PITA.

Also, about a third of the time, after the tape is copied to DVD, the machine won't finalize the disc, and I have to start over again. Since this is in real time, and I'm recording from a tape, it means rewinding the tape from the beginning.

Also, the DVDs do not have menus or chapters, so unless you can review the DVD on your computer using software with a slide bar, you have to fastforward on your DVD player to the end of the DVD so that you know where to start the second part of the tape to make the second DVD, because the last half hour of the 90 minute tape won't fit on your 60 minute video.

This has got to be the stupidest machine. When I first got it, I should have returned it then and there. Instead, I put it aside, thinking that maybe I was doing something wrong, and come back to it later. Now is later, and it still doesn't work about 1/3 of the time. I normally don't do reviews, but this is irritating me.

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Transfer home movies and digital pictures to DVD, quickly and easily without a PC. Connect with virtually any camcorder, VCR, even DVR for recording video DVDs playable in standard DVD players. Built in slots accept the 5 most common memory cards for recording digital pictures to DVD as a slideshow or for photo storage. Record high definition AVCHD video from Sony HDD or Memory Stick Handycam camcorders to DVD playable in Blu-ray Disc compatible devices.