Canon DW-100 DVD Burner for Canon Hard Drive and Flash Memory Based Camcorders

by Canon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 167.3 x 106.3 x 61.4 inches ; 4.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00114163Y
• Item model number: DW-100
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 7, 2008

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

To complete your video experience, Canon has created the DW-100 DVD Burner. With the touch of a button you can record footage from your Canon Hard Disk Drive, or Flash Memory Camcorder. Not only can the DW-100 create DVD’s, but when connected to a compatible Canon camcorder, it can also be used to play AVCHD DVD’s on your television. Who better to make your life simple and easy then Canon?

DW-100 DVD Burner Highlights

AVCHD and MPEG-2 burner and player You can record footage from your Canon AVCHD hard disk drive, or AVCHD flash memory camcorder, as well as from your standard-definition flash memory camcorder. Additionally, the DW-100 can also act as a player, simply by connecting to a compatible Canon AVCHD camcorder.

Simple and easy With only 3 buttons there is no room for confusion.

One-touch operation After connecting your compatible Canon camcorder to the DW-100 DVD Burner, and selecting the footage you want to record through the menu on the camcorder, you just have to press Record and the footage will burn onto the DVD.

Various backup options By using the menu on your compatible Canon camcorder, you can choose to record all of the footage saved, part of the footage saved, and can determine which footage you have not recorded yet.

Product Description

The DW-100 will be available in late April 2008. The Canon DW-100 DVD Burner is the perfect companion for Canon Flash Memory camcorders and Canon Hard Disk Drive camcorders. It allows a consumer to burn all, part or previously recorded video from a compatible Canon camcorder to a DVD. In addition to burning Standard Definition DVDs, the DW-100 can also burn AVCHD DVDs which can be played in compatible Blu-Ray players. Still images captured in your compatible Canon camcorder can also be sent to the DW-100 and from them a photo movie can be created. The DW-100 DVD Burner has only three buttons: power, record and eject, making operation fast and easy. Unlike other similar yet daunting devices, the DW-100 DVD Burner is designed for one-touch operation: connect via USB, set and burn. The DW-100 can also act as a player itself by connecting to an HDTV through the Canon VIXIA HF10, VIXIA HF100 or VIXIA HG10 camcorders. Compatible with: Canon VIXIA HG10, VIXIA HF10, VIXIA HF100 high definition camcorders as well as the Canon FS11, FS10 and FS100 standard definition camcorders.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for archiving original recordings, July 27, 2008

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D. Swanson (Illinois) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Canon DW-100 DVD Burner for Canon Hard Drive and Flash Memory Based Camcorders (Electronics)

I purchased this as soon as it was available. I was looking for a way to archive the original footage that was recorded on my Canon HG10. It is a little quirky to use. You need to create a playlist to record if you are not backing up the entire camera. Once you get used to using the burner it is a great utility. I was unaware until after purchasing that you can put the disks created by the burner into a Blu-Ray player and watch them in full HD.

At home I have an iMac and when I insert the burned disc it shows up in iMovie just as it would if the recorded video was still on the camera.

I have had no issues burning to RiTek RiData 8x DVD-R. I cannot vouch for other brands as I haven't used any others yet.

I absolutely recommend this item to anyone looking to archive their videos in their original format that does not want to rely only on keeping it on local hard drives. After having a hard drive in the past fail and losing some info that had not yet been backed up I am a firm believer in that you cannot have enough backups. Especially when the subject of most of our video recordings have been of our daughter.

I only gave it 4 stars as I wish the drive itself could be used to playback the burned discs.

96 of 104 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Will not burn Stadard DVD's, August 1, 2008

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Brian Olson "bri" (Stillwater, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon DW-100 DVD Burner for Canon Hard Drive and Flash Memory Based Camcorders (Electronics)

I bought the DW-100 burner to go with our Canon HF-10 HD flash based camcorder. I'm not so disappointed with the performance of the burner itself, but rather the misleading description by Canon of what this thing actually is. According to Canon's website, "...DW-100 allows you to connect to a Canon VIXIA HG10, VIXIA HF10, and VIXIA HF100 as well as the FS11, FS10 and FS100 camcorders to download video and burn AVCHD or Standard Definition DVDs." This is not exactly the truth. As it turns out, the ability to burn Standard Definition DVD's is dependant on the camera's ability to record in Standard Definition (and vice versa). For example, Standard Definition is not a recording option with the HF-10, and thus I am unable to burn Standard Definition DVDs.

This issue leads me to the whole point of me buying this burner. I wanted to have the ability to create Standard Definition DVD's on-the-fly (i.e., encode DVD mpeg-2 from source AVCHD) so I could share videos with those friends and family that don't yet have blu-ray playback technologies in their homes (including ourselves at this point in time). Unfortunately there is NO on-the-fly conversion from AVCHD to mpeg-2 at all.

So I'm stuck with a $200 stand-alone DW-100 burner that isn't really anything more than what I already had in my desktop PC, which I bought for $30 about 2 years ago. So be informed as to exactly what you are buying. This unit will not burn Standard Definition DVDs when coupled with the HF-10 as the description implies.

51 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Completely unnecessary if you have a computer, January 11, 2009

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FatherOf5 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Canon DW-100 DVD Burner for Canon Hard Drive and Flash Memory Based Camcorders (Electronics)

This burner creates an AVCHD-formatted disc from a DVD-R or DVD-R(DL) blank DVD. You have to have a Blu-Ray player to play this disc, and one that specifically can handle AVCHD-formatted discs.

The software you get with your camcorder (ImageMixer) also easily creates an AVCHD-formatted disc from a DVD-R or DVD-R(DL) blank DVD.

If you have a computer with a writable DVD drive (and don't mind using it), then you absolutely do NOT need this burner. You only need this burner if you don't want to run ImageMixer to create AVCHD-formatted discs.

Better idea (IMHO) is to use your computer to burn DVD's and use the money saved to buy a Blu-Ray player.