What are the pros and cons of camcorders that record directly to DVD?
One of the formats, one of the ones that is becoming the most popular these days is DVD. The ability to record directly to a disk and of course the biggest advantage of that is being able to just take that disk directly out of your camera and place it into the tray of your DVD player, you press the play button, everybody sits around in front of the television and we can watch it instantly and that's really great to be able to just watch video right away. But on the down side of it, these are smaller disks than we're used to, it's not like a DVD when we rent a movie or buy a movie. These typically have best picture quality recording times of no more than about twenty minutes of recording time, so that kinda does limit it to you. You need to bring more and more DVDs with you if you wanna shoot more and more. And also editing a DVD if that's what you wanna do is pretty challenging. I think these things will change over time, DVD editing will become easier and easier as these cameras become more popular just like in the days of tape but right now DVDs are really just about convenience and the ability to watch your video right then and there.
