Best withing $300 price for DV direct recording

[jmcgee_jr]

All I care about is DV quality. I have a TRV-11 and I use edius 3 now but i hate all the steps to make a dvd from it and all I dont care about menus and such I just want tsomething to stick my blank DVD in and hit record and have it be a great quality.

[gshelley61]

JVC DVD recorders make an excellent DV to DVD transfer. Toshiba and Sony DVD recorders also do a very good job. Lite-On units, although they are somewhat cheaply made, do a really great job of DV to DVD conversion, too. Same goes for the ilo DVDR04 and RH04, which are simply Lite-On clones.

If you have up to $300 to spend, get one with a built in hard drive. That way, you can do high speed duplicate DVD copying of your project once it has been converted to MPEG2 on the hard drive.

[jmcgee_jr]

so you recommend the JVC one huh? what model number? I really dont care about hdd cause after i do that I can just copy it on my PC instead. Save money. I just really want something that will give great quality with less effort then i am doing now.

[gshelley61]

The newer JVC non-HDD model is the DR-M100S

[FulciLives]

The Pioneer DVR-531H-s is a stand alone DVD recorder that is now selling at WALMART for just under $300.00

It has a built-in 80GB HDD but it does not have DV IN ports.

However there have been a lot of people that have tested DV IN vs ANALOG IN (using the camcorders analog output) and the difference in quality is almost always indiscernible. Sometimes DV IN looks slightly better than ANALOG IN but sometimes ANALOG IN looks slightly better but either way any difference is barely detectable.

This is at least true when going straight from the cam to MPEG-2 DVD format using a high quality device such as a DVD recorder.

I understand if you would rather have DV IN but I really don't see it as any big deal one way or another. In truth having a built-in HDD is much more usefull an option.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[trhouse]

The Pioneer DVR-533H is the version of the 531 with DV input, but as tested on this thread by Gshelley61, the 533 DV input is subpar compared to all the other DV input recorders tested.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=279460