Does anyone have one of the new tapeless DVD-RAM camcorders yet?
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Allen Moulton from Uechi-ryu Etcetera
DVD-RAM Camcorder
Moderator: Scott Danziger
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Dakkon 98
DVD-RAM Camcorder
Which model?
I've toyed with the mini cd camcoders and they are pretty nice.
I've toyed with the mini cd camcoders and they are pretty nice.
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Allen M.
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Dakkon 98
DVD-RAM Camcorder
Allen,
Yes, the Hitachi is a nice dvd cam corder but the media is <font color="green" $$$$</font>. I'm hoping in the next year or two the price falls to what we pay for CD-R blanks. I'd like to have a DVD camcorder for my trip to Alaska, but when a mini-cd camcorder is $500 less and media is at least $20 less it adds up.
Yes, the Hitachi is a nice dvd cam corder but the media is <font color="green" $$$$</font>. I'm hoping in the next year or two the price falls to what we pay for CD-R blanks. I'd like to have a DVD camcorder for my trip to Alaska, but when a mini-cd camcorder is $500 less and media is at least $20 less it adds up.
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Allen M.
DVD-RAM Camcorder
It doesn't seem fair, does it?
Look at CR-RW. Althought the price of the media has been low and the computer stores are choking with the disks [indicateive they are really worth a few pennies apiece] the price of the writeable drives has been artificially held high, and only in recent months after everyone seemed to own CR-RW devices did the price of that piece of hardware drop to what it should have been several years ago -- less than $100.
PRICE GOUGING is what it is.
Look at the price of a GOOD hi-8 camcorder with all the bells and whistles these days. $299 at best-buy. closer to what it's REAL value should be. Hi-8 tapes have always been overpriced, and the better quality ones were ridiculously priced.
Then DVD tapes and camcorders -- same thing.
It is rape by the manufacturers who are laughing all the way to the bank.
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Allen Moulton from Uechi-ryu Etcetera
Look at CR-RW. Althought the price of the media has been low and the computer stores are choking with the disks [indicateive they are really worth a few pennies apiece] the price of the writeable drives has been artificially held high, and only in recent months after everyone seemed to own CR-RW devices did the price of that piece of hardware drop to what it should have been several years ago -- less than $100.
PRICE GOUGING is what it is.
Look at the price of a GOOD hi-8 camcorder with all the bells and whistles these days. $299 at best-buy. closer to what it's REAL value should be. Hi-8 tapes have always been overpriced, and the better quality ones were ridiculously priced.
Then DVD tapes and camcorders -- same thing.
It is rape by the manufacturers who are laughing all the way to the bank.
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Allen Moulton from Uechi-ryu Etcetera
