Are those DVD cams any good?
 

The ones that go straight to a DVD.
Me likes!

I'm interested in them as well, particularly the DVD-RAM ones as I have a DVD recorder as well as the usual computer DVD drive...

I have heard that finalising on some models is a problem, it can take up to an hour before you can take out the DVD and whack it in a normal DVD player. This is with -R, perhaps it's a non issue with +R.

If you are going to edit the footage don't use it The footage is stored as MPEG2 format which is pretty bad compared to minidv format.

i dont like them, no. id rather always edit from mini dv

mmmm they're too big, like a whole cd on the side... way too big and shit looking... besides the fact that it's going direct to cd, if your doing something rough wouldnt it fuck the burn?

anyway, i think jvc have direct to HDD cameras now, or ram based drives... thats the shit i recon.

either that or mini dv until these new ramdrive technology's get better...

DVDs are probably more stable than a flimsy bit of tape if you start throwing your camera around, they'd be like a gyro. :) They're also miniature versions, not the standard full sized discs.

Calvinguy makes a very good point, DV stores data at a much higher bitrate (about 28Mbit/sec) than DVD (something like 10Mbit/sec at full rate). If you want to edit the data then you've already lost quality by realtime encoding to MPEG2.