new panasonic dmr-e20 dvd-r replaces my computer

[benrod]

i brought my dell 1 gig just to capture video and sold it for the panasonic set-top dvd-recorder.its great. no more f**king around with all of this capturing and encoding. and the quality is A++ mpeg2 video. disk's are also coming down in price each week, there down to $5.95 ea. i put 3 movies on 1 dvd-r thats $2 a movie, and the quality- it beat's the cr*p out of tmpeg, cce and everything. anybody got any arguments, bring them on, because as soon as these things come down to $350 -$400, and the dvd-r's come down to under a dollar, all of you people are going to be gone.

[pacmania_2001]

Do these players allow you to put menus on your vcds and svcds? Do they allow you to put chapters on your vcd and svcds? Is it really worth putting a crappy old quality home video onto a DVD-R? It is also a hobby to many people who do it just for the sake of doing it.

As for your comment about all of us being gone once this come in. No we wont, we will just be putting our edited and authored movies onto DVD-R. For an example of this happening in another field just look at web page design. Sure you can use a program like Front Page that is WYSIWYG but people still write their html by hand because it gives them more control

[mem_user]

I put my home movies on DVD-R, and of course they are not crappy to me and besides I am using a Digital Cam. so the quality is wonderful. I do agree with you pacmania that the people making vcd/svcd are not going anywhere anytime soon. There is definitly more control making your own than using the dvd video recorder. Templates, themes, chapters and menus are all customisable (i think thats not a word) doing it our way. Plus, its just more fun.