Ari Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 Ok, my mate at the local Panasonic centre has the new DVD recorders in. But the one I was going to buy hasn't got Freeview, which I think would be useful. To get Freeview I have to buy a dearer one. Now, he's got an "old" model one which has Freeview and which, because it is an older model, is heavily discounted and wil work out about the same cost. The only thing is, the "new" one will record in all formats, the "old" one won't record in +RW. Now the formats is where I struggle. What do I actually need? What I want to be able to do is download video from my Camcorder onto DVD's to keep, and on occasion to be able to send to people so they can pop them into their players and watch them. I was hoping to do this via my PC but it seems rather complicated so for the short term being able to just plug the Camcorder into the DVD recorder, press play on one and record on the other, and have viewable DVD's seems an easy solution (although will mean i can't edit them which is a pain). So, should I get the "old" model one which was £300 and has Freeview but no +RW, and which I can get for under £200, or the new one which is similar money, has all the formats, but no Freeview? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexc Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 +RW means that it writes to +R re-writable discs. This means that you won't be able to use the +R discs which you can delete and re-write to. Does it have -R & +R capability? If so, then that's all you need. Blank discs are so cheap nowadays so you can burn once and keep/dispose of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpellypo Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 Doesn't really matter Ari. Just means, as said, you need to buy - disks instead of +. There's been no decision on what the standard is going to be in the future anyway afaik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Dan Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 DVD-RAM is better, but propietory to Panasonic, I use this and DVD-R and DVD-RW with mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted April 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 Good advice, thanks chaps. It has DVD-RAM, but presumably if I sent that to someone who didn't have a Panasonic player it wouldn't play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Dan Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 You got it ... including your drive in your PC unless you swap it out. But it is a lot better - acts like a harddisk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insurance Jon Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 ari - if you want panasonic give me a bell, we insure a panasonic centre and he does great m8's rates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisg Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 Would that apply to any of us Jon? I'm about to go down this route -- was looking at Sony 710, freeview, loads of Gbs, neat looks-- but think DVD RAM would be technically better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted April 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 [ QUOTE ] ari - if you want panasonic give me a bell, we insure a panasonic centre and he does great m8's rates [/ QUOTE ] Thanks Jon. As it happens the Panasonic chappy is a friend of mine, so he's looking after me. Appreciate the offer though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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