My gadget dream anyway. Okay okay okay, one of my MANY gadget dreams. But this one made my day.
For years I've been hoping someone would come out with a standalone device I could connect my camcorder to and make DVDs directly. Finally... FINALLY I tell you, Sony has heeded the call. For a reasonable price even.
And as though they were making it up to me for my years of longing, they made the ultra-spiffy device capable of hooking up to a computer to be a USB 2.0 dual-layer DVD burner. Wow. I already have a DVD burner, but it's not dual-layer. So that's icing. Yummy.
Streaming the video to my computer and creating my own fancy DVD with titles and chapters and menus (etc etc etc) is fine and dandy. But it's SO darn time consuming, AND it's a hard drive sucker-upper (as you might imagine from that 2-minute, low-res, 35MB video from yesterday's post). There have been many occasions where I have a single event on one tape and I just want to make several copies to send people without all the computer-in-the-middle hassle, and this device will be my answer. It is SO already on my wishlist.
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