can i make regular dvds with this camera? I do not have a blu ray player, or a hi def tv, i want to get a hi def cam corder since at some point i am sure that regular stuff will be phased out. Will i still be able to make regular dvd's and play this on a regular tv? can i make regular dvds with this camera? I do not have a blu ray player, or a hi def tv, i want to get a hi def cam corder since at some point i am sure that regular stuff will be phased out. ... » Read More can i make regular dvds with this camera? I do not have a blu ray player, or a hi def tv, i want to get a hi def cam corder since at some point i am sure that regular stuff will be phased out. Will i still be able to make regular dvd's and play this on a regular tv? « Show Less
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You can make regular dvd's with this camcorder. Since my computer is slow. I purchased a Sony DVD Direct Burner and it works great. With the burner I do lose the ability to edit the videos and it burns in real time....if your video is an hour it takes an hour to burn. The quality is fantastic and it also can burn slide shows from various memory cards.
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Hi Basketball Mom, I have 3 or 4 of these cameras and love them. I have no problem burning a DVD on my computer. Also have the RCA burner which is slow but works great. Always an option if you can't do it on your computer.
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Hi there K.........how did this unit turn out for you? I've had mine for a couple of years so far, and it plays DVD's great. I gave up on learning how to copy a tape to a disk, but that is the one feature I needed to rid myself of boxes of old VCR tapes. (See my posts dated 2/21/10.) James says I need a tuner, however the inst. book does not mention that. Thanks for the help, Jeanette
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Only if you want to play them on anything but the camera itself....but you can change tapes on that anytime. I pesonally prefer to transfer important videos to DVD. There are DVD recorders, especially good ones from Magnavox, that you can simply plug in video and audio inputs to very easily make great DVDs. I have literally scores of such discs for both my business and family videos.
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I have a regular TV (Standard Def) with component inputs, can I use this player (as a standard dvd player) with my regular TV. I plan on buying a HDTV in the future and I want a standard def. dvd player for now.
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Actually I purchased the DVD for my brother who lives in other country and took the DVD player with him. We put USB drives and Data DVD's with videos in AVI format, and played them without difficult. Probably some videos were in another format but I don't remember, the fact is that all the videos in the media were played. I don't think it would be able to read video formats from camcorders or Digital cameras without conversion to playable formats.
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Yes. In most cases you'll have no other choice. Whether your device plays the movies, though, is up to the device. The camera lets you save the hi-def videos to the AVI file format and some DVD players will play these, but most play only the XVID AVI format. There's a program called Mov Converter that should let you convert many files to playable DVD formats.
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No. But some HD-DVD titles are released in combo disc... meaning that side A is HD-DVD and side B is regular DVD. That way you can play the discs regardless of your player. No Hi-def format can simply be played on a regular DVD player. They use a different type of laser DVD players do not have.
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A better question is what format will it not play. I have been able to play divx 4.x and 5.x,asi .mp4,vob,mov and .mkv 4:3&16:9 video files off of a usb on it. This is very nice if you have a lot of personal video files that you want to watch on your tv without having to do extra work converting and burning the video files to disc. I use a 1 tb external drive for storage(to play) and I have an external WD 2.5 500gb for recording with no problems. Be sure to download and install the update software first thing. Also if you are going to record from it be sure and format the drive to ntfs or you will have multiple files for each recording.(unless that is what you want) A better question is what format will it not play. I have been able to play divx 4.x and 5.x,asi .mp4,vob,mov and .mkv 4:3&16:9 video files off of a usb on it. This is very nice if you have a lot of personal video files that you want to watch on your tv without having to do extra work converting and burning the video files to disc. I use a 1 tb external drive for storage(to play) and I have an external WD 2.5 500gb for recording with no problems. Be sure to download and install the update software first thing. Also if you are going to record from it be sure and format the drive to ntfs or... » Read More A better question is what format will it not play. I have been able to play divx 4.x and 5.x,asi .mp4,vob,mov and .mkv 4:3&16:9 video files off of a usb on it. This is very nice if you have a lot of personal video files that you want to watch on your tv without having to do extra work converting and burning the video files to disc. I use a 1 tb external drive for storage(to play) and I have an external WD 2.5 500gb for recording with no problems. Be sure to download and install the update software first thing. Also if you are going to record from it be sure and format the drive to ntfs or you will have multiple files for each recording.(unless that is what you want) « Show Less
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Yes it plays regular DVDs as well as DVD-R and +R. The only thing it will not play is HI-DEF DVDs. Mine is still working. Is this thing still available?
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I have a Panasonic HDC-SD1 camcorder and the BD60 Blu Ray Player plays the video shot with this camcorder just fine. I'm using an 8 GB SDHC card. Just remove the card from the camcorder and insert in the player front slot. Don't edit or change anything on the video 'cause it won't work. I've used Ulead video studio pro x2 and Cyberlink Power director8 to edit and burn the AVCHD video on DVD and played just fine on the Panasonic BD60. If put the final edited video on the SD card it doesn't work.
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It is backwards compatible so will work like a regular DVD. Will play regular, blu ray and 3D DVD's. You can't run 3D unless you have a newer 3D TV, but any tv will show a regular or blu ray DVD.
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If from this camcorder, but if your referring to 3D BluRay movie disc's, then you must have a 3D BluRay player...On my new 65" Vizio 3DTV, the 3D effect was larger than in real life :-) If your taking vids, you won't get much a 3D effect at long ranges btw if you don't have something close in the pic..
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Is it possible to make a DVD from this machine of shows you have recorded from Dish Network? Mine SHOWS to be recording, but when I play it back, the DVD is black / blank with no sound. (We have a compatable Samsung HDTV; all our components are run through a Yamaha sound bar system.) Do the disks (I'm using +R) have to be formatted first, or do they automatically format? Thanks in advance.
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I had a similar dilemma. I just had a baby in December and wanted a camcorder for home videos. After hours of research I decided the Sony DCR-SR300 was the best HDD camcorder out there and bought it... so far so good! It also takes great pictures, although with each video you're limited in the number of pictures you can take (don't know if it's the same issue with the JVC Everio).
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Yes! You will need to buy a specific burner. It will be regular bd, dvd or cd compatible too.
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I don't know what that is, but probably not. I do however, think that regular DVDs can be made...I just haven't had use for that particular thing. I'm sure it's in the description.