Digital camera or camcorder to record directly to DVD media

[joepic]

DPS has announced that they too are shipping an external 4x DVD±RW drive. The Que! DVD 2i offers support for USB 2.0 and FireWire as well as DDR (direct-to-disk recording) technology.

The external DVD burner offers IEEE-1394 (FireWire) and USB 2.0 interfaces and supports DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, CD-R and CD-RW formats for PC and Macintosh. As a result, buyers never have to worry whether or not they’re purchasing the right burner because the disks they create can be played on virtually every DVD video player and drive.

The Que! DVD 2i with DDR enables anyone using a digital camera or camcorder to record directly to DVD media in real-time without saving images onto the computer hard disk drive. This innovation in DVD authoring software eliminates the need to transfer video from the camcorder to the hard disk then to the burner.
The Que! DVD 2i comes with software for the PC and the Mac and has a suggested retail price of $299.99. More information on the drive can be found on DPS's website.

http://www.qps-inc.com/Press%20Room/Que!%20DVD%202i%202f/QDVD2i2f.htm

[cameramonkey]

looks promising. Now the only question is how well does it handle high motion video.

Thanks for the tip! I'll be sure and check that out.

[jnk76]

I am iffy about that. It is purely software driven which is what we use now. To get good results it takes hours using good encoders. I doubt these guys developed one at a high quality and only selling for $300.

I would pass on this for sure. maybe if it was hardware more driven like if it came with it own PCI card which handled most load of computing the encoding.....maybe.....but those kind of things are really expensive to go real time.