Am I able to play videos taken with this camcorder on my TV screen? How do you do it?MORE QUESTIONS:How would you burn these onto DVDs? Also, it is compatible with the new HD tv format? Am I able to play videos taken with this camcorder on my TV screen? How do you do it?MORE QUESTIONS:How would you burn these onto DVDs? Also, it is compatible... » Read More Am I able to play videos taken with this camcorder on my TV screen? How do you do it?MORE QUESTIONS:How would you burn these onto DVDs? Also, it is compatible with the new HD tv format? « Show Less
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You might need to change a seting on your tv, I had to change mine from "Set by program to 16:9" to display widescreen.
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It comes with the cables to play video on your TV. You can burn DVDs using the included software. This camera is NOT HD, but it can record in 16:9 so it will fill your HD TV screen.
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Well I finally got my reply, and here it is..."...We understand that you would like to know if the DVDR3576H/37 will give you the option to record and watch television at the same time. This particular unit does not have that option. Please visit our web site at www.p4c.philips.com to view additonal DVDR that will be more suitable."We've come along way since the analog/VCR age...NOT!! I don't normally have a call to watch the very same show I am recording. How lame is that. I guess I'll just keep looking. From the horses mouth...I guess that ends this thread.
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No you can't. Just a word of caution! Do not buy this device. It's a waste of money. It is not compatible with most DVD's regardless of the format. It will not play 9 out of 10 DVD's. It's a pure waste of money! This is an honest objective unsolicited candid opinion without prejudice. After all, I'm still stuck with the trash.
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You can burn a disc using your computer. I have the HDR-CX500V, but my computer is slow and I knew it would take forever to burn a disc. I bought the Sony DVDirect burner and I love it. If you computer has enough power and speed you should be okay.
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I am sorry I cannot help you. I still cannot figure out how to record and have it play on another dvd player...ugh!
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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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I upload it to my computer and then, straight to youtube. But, I don't think you can do it straight from the camcorder to youtube without plugging it in.
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yea mp4 don't play. some avi files will play. If not, I just convert to dvd (ntsc) format..
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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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Thanks for the info. I bought the camcorder because the person for whom I bought it sent me a DVD produced on their equipment, and I was able to view it on both my computer and television. Does NTSC/PAL apply also to digital? I don't quite get all this.....
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ok, question that will reveal how little i know about this. you mentioned recording to DVD. Can a DVD recorder record over the air broadcasts? can you set it to record at certain times, the way you would a VCR? And can you re-record over the dvds or do you have to keep buying them? (the advantage of vhs.)thanks!
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Donald, Have you had any success fixing this problem? I am having the same problem, I try transferring DVD files to the MP3 and it seems to work, but when I go to play the video on the mp3 it gives me an error. I think it needs to be converted but don't know how. Thanks.
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I don't connect camera to TV for playback. I burn DVD'S and they do playback in full screen. =)
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There is a lot of advice on burning to regular DVD-R in the discussion "How to put small clips together". I have a Vista dual core 3GB system and use the Pixela Image Mixer SE software included in the camcorder package. It is not very sophisticated but I find it pretty stable and it does an adequate job of making both regular DVD-R's and AVCHD movies on DVD-R. To just join AVCHD clips together with no editing it is quite fast and I believe it does "smart-rendering" ? Otherwise, the computer may take a few hours to process. Viewing directly on an SD TV is no problem. You just hook up the supplied red/yellow/white AV cables to your TV and put the other end in the back of the camcorder. Best to power it from the power cable though. You will need to come up with a plan to archive your AVCHD video for future use for when you get your HDTV. Otherwise your video may be "gone from the flashcard". When you get your HDTV you might want to think about getting a PS3 or Blu-Ray Player to play your alternate AVCHD DVD-R disks. You can use the supplied HD component video and audio cables to hook up the camcorder to the HDTV, but long-term a Blu-Ray Player is probably a better option. If you want a miniHDMI-HDMI hookup you will have to buy the cable as it is not supplied with the HF100. Currently, a 16GB SDHC card (2 hours FXP AVCHD) costs about $50. It takes 4 standard DVD-R's to store 2 hours of AVCHD at a cost of about $2. Also, how long can you expect the video to last on the flash card ? I have hard drive backups of the raw .mts files, DVD-R backups of the .mts files and DVD-R's of edited AVCHD movies. Oh, and I have edited standard DVD-R's in both NTSC and PAL(for my family in the UK, available from the "settings" tab).....
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How do you copy the video to the computer? I am having problem to copy the picutres and vidio to my computer.Thanks
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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)
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They are right. Download to computer and burn disc , I 'm not real computer literate as I have a problem viewing the disc on my tv. Which I blame on not knowing how to the right software to burn a DVD. But anyway, I wanted to add that you could also email the video as an attachment to your prof,