DVD Camcorder... advice needed please
 

I've just checked my sainsburys reward points and found I have nearly £300... I can spend this in Arogs... so I need some advice...

I want to buy a dvd camcorder thiongy... so we can record the kids/ australia etc and send home dvds to the parents to make things a little easier? Things like live birthday/ christmas cards that they can put on and have a bloody good cry after the queens speech on christmas day whilst we spend the day huddled round the air conditioner eating the full christmas monty......

I know NOTHING about dvds... so a few questions...

Do I have to buy one here so it records in a format that they can play here in the uk?

Should I be taking large supplies of blank uk region dvds if I do this? what about cd mail boxes, are they readily available?

Is there a resonable (idiot proof - put that wheelbarrow down dear you know you're not technically minded) one in the argos selection?

Has anyone else done this?

All help gratefully received...


I know I'll have to pay duty as its less than a year old.... but I think its a worthwhile investment...

comments please?

Re: DVD Camcorder... advice needed please
 

Take it out the box and pretend its 2 years old! How will they know?

Ive flown dozens of times with cameras and camcorders and nobody has bothered about them. As all tourists carry them.

Gems

Re: DVD Camcorder... advice needed please
 

Buy a hard disk camcorder. The DVD ones produce file types (.ifo and.vob for the techies) which are incompatible with commonly available editing software in my experience.

Buzzy

Re: DVD Camcorder... advice needed please
 

Too right the flipping things are useless if you want to do any editing.
however if you film a fa,ily event and want to send it home with out the frills of digi editing they are very convenient.

Re: DVD Camcorder... advice needed please
 

i don't want to do anything fancy, i can barely work the vcr yet!

Re: DVD Camcorder... advice needed please
 

We have shipped our UK camcorder, but want to buy an oz camcorder. But we have a UK PC would the Oz camcorder work on the UK PC???? ditto as above for transferring the video to DVD to send stuff back to family in the UK.

Re: DVD Camcorder... advice needed please
 

Hi there
We have just got a JVC camcorder with a 30GB hardrive on it. The footage can be loaded on to your pc and sent to the uk when you get out there via email attatchment or put on a DVD and sent by post, this is why we brought it.
You don't need to bother with any tapes or anything I think its fab.
HTH