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Help with a silly HDD question ?

  • 09-07-2008 3:32pm
    #1
    huge2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi all,

    I have an extensive library of old camcorder shot VHS tapes. As I'm now moving on to the digital age I am about to purchase a machine that will do this conversion for me. Plenty of options on the basic VHS/DVD combi units are available.
    My question is about Hard Disk Drive DVDs. Will these allow me to edit and insert chapters/menus on my DVD disk? I'm looking to edit a lot of unwanted footage and make them more professional.

    Or am I better off with the combi unit? Or is there a combi unit available with a buillt in HDD??

    Thanks for any help


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  • #2
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,514 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    The HDD recorder I have can split recordings on the HDD, this allows bits to be deleted. Or if you don't want to split a title (they cannot be recombined once split) you can "hide" parts of them. So lets say you have 3 hours of footage on one tape and 2 hours on another and you want to take bits of each and burn them onto a DVD as separate titles - that works fine. Not sure about the chapters and menus though. I use auto chapters and don't care about menus.

    My DVD HDD is a 250 GB Philips 3597H that I got in D.I.D. the other day for 197 quid. You could combine this with a basic new VCR which are around 75-90 quid. you'd then IMO have a better setup than a combo VCR/DVD unit most of which do not have a HDD and seem to cost 250-350 quid.

    Before this I had a Samsung combo unit which while good in some ways had no HDD. I am transferring a large number of tapes too and the HDD on my new unit makes it much easier. BTW the Samsung was returned as the VCR part had faulty audio.


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