DMR-E80H question (or for other DVD recorders)

[yenly]

I bought the DMR-E80H last week. Quality is great. However, I have a slight problem. When play back the DVD, as it goes from program #1 to program #2, there is a 1-3 seconds freeze. Is there anyway to overcome this problem? The entire DVD does not flow smooth from one chapter to the next. I often like to cut and edit my movies/music...this is a major problem for me. Also, is there a standalone DVD recorder out there that will not have this freeze problem as the movie goes from one chapter to the next.

Also, first I recorded the movie to HDD. Once I edited and had everything I wanted, I dubbed the entire program list to DVD. It takes the same amount of time again. Let's say my entire thing is 2 hours. It took 2 hours to record the movie onto HDD, then another 2 hours to dub from HDD to DVD. Is there anyway to transfer the movie from HDD to DVD in a shorter time frame? Or is this something I have to live with?

I guess the most important thing is the freeze, I want to know if there is anyway to overcome this problem or perhaps a different DVD recorder I should look into.

[FulciLives]

I bought the DMR-E80H last week. Quality is great. However, I have a slight problem. When play back the DVD, as it goes from program #1 to program #2, there is a 1-3 seconds freeze. Is there anyway to overcome this problem? The entire DVD does not flow smooth from one chapter to the next. I often like to cut and edit my movies/music...this is a major problem for me. Also, is there a standalone DVD recorder out there that will not have this freeze problem as the movie goes from one chapter to the next.

Also, first I recorded the movie to HDD. Once I edited and had everything I wanted, I dubbed the entire program list to DVD. It takes the same amount of time again. Let's say my entire thing is 2 hours. It took 2 hours to record the movie onto HDD, then another 2 hours to dub from HDD to DVD. Is there anyway to transfer the movie from HDD to DVD in a shorter time frame? Or is this something I have to live with?

I guess the most important thing is the freeze, I want to know if there is anyway to overcome this problem or perhaps a different DVD recorder I should look into.

Nothing you can do about the pauses unless you DO NOT EDIT on the DVD recorder but instead import to the computer and EDIT then AUTHOR.

A lot of people use DVD-RAM for this (record on stand alone ... copy DVD-RAM to computer ... edit and author to a DVD-R disc). Then you can use the same DVD-RAM to record something else on the stand alone.

As for HDD to DVD-R transfer it is real time when going from HDD to DVD-R but not when going from HDD to DVD-RAM as long as you record in the same mode it will be faster than real time. For example ... If the HDD was done at XP and the DVD-RAM transfer is done at anything other than XP then it will be real time but if it is done at XP (or in other words the same speed as the HDD copy) then it will be faster than real time.

When it is faster than real time it is a DATA copy. When the transfer is not real time then the DVD recorder is re-encoding. Not a good thing. Thus this is why many people import to the computer to edit and finally author to a DVD-R disc. You have more control that way.

Very few DVD burners can read DVD-RAM but there are a few DVD-ROM drives that can (Toshiba makes one for around $40) and there is a popular CD-R/RW DVD-ROM/RAM combo unit that goes for around $70 but I forget you makes it (I think it is made my LG).

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[oldfart13]

It is not real time to DVD-R if the recorder has been set to DVD Compatability mode beforehand. Then you can make a High Speed dub of the program to DVD-R in 1 hour or less. I'm currently doing a 1 hour 35 minute SP recorded TV show to DVD-R and it's going to take 37 minutes according to the E80. With the E100 and a 4X disc, a disk would take as little as 15 minutes to burn, since that model has a 4X burner in it...