Sony DVDirect VRDMC10 Stand Alone DVD Recorder/Player (Black)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 9.1 x 3 inches ; 3.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001RB2L3A
• Item model number: VRDMC10
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank

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  #13 in	Electronics > Computers & Accessories > Memory Cards & External Storage > Optical Drives

• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 13, 2009

Product Description

Product Description

Transfer high definition video in native 1080i resolution from Sony AVCHD1 HDD/Memory Stick/Hybrid Plus Handycam Camcorders to DVD recorded in H.264 format. This allows up to 95 minutes of HD video to be recorded on a DVD disc playable on most Blu-ray Disc compatible devices. Record all video from a Sony HDD/Memory Stick Handycam Camcorder, just selected scenes, or only video recorded since the last DVD burn ¿ all at up to 6X speed (60 minutes of video in about 10 minutes). Will ¿span¿ multiple DVDs as necessary. Consolidate several mini camcorder DVDs to full size 5-inch DVD using Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder. Down-convert AVCHD video on the fly to create a standard DVD that plays on most home DVD players.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sony DVDirect VRDMC10, June 27, 2009

By	Robert L. Gray (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I bought the VRDMC10 to convert our family VHS collection to DVD. I have only used it for this purpose so my review is limited to this application. With that in mind I feel that the unit worked flawlessly. It was true "plug-and-play" simplicity and performed as advertised. I also own a Sony HDR-SR11 HD Camcorder, and plan to burn some AVCHD DVDs from the camera on our next vacation. One plus is that we do not own a Blu-ray player and this unit also serves as an AVCHD disk player. The controls and menu are easy to use, and the unit ran unattended for many consecutive hours without fail. I would recommend this to anyone with a library of old VHS media they would like to convert to DVD.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sony VRDMC10 DVD recorder, June 14, 2009

By	James R. Storck "postman" (Union Grove, WI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was tired of wrestling with the computer and confusing software for photo card backups so I invested in this DVD stand-alone recorder. It is an outstanding and simple to use product that I've also used to burn copies of my Hi8 video camera footage and numerous memory cards. No complaints other than I wish I would have waited a few more weeks for the price reductions on this new product.

20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Have yet to get to work, April 12, 2009

By	JBFranzen (McLean, VA United States) - See all my reviews

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The AVCHD format in most hard drive camcorders is a pain in the butt. I purchased this as a simple way to dump all my footage to DVD so I could clear out the camera. I figured someday, someone would come up with some outstanding software to work with the AVCHD format.

This machine is probably pretty good but I have yet to complete a download. It takes 3-4 DVDs to download a fairly full camcorder and I continually get a failure message at the end of the last disk.

Fortunately each clip on the camera comes as a separate AVCHD file on the disks so I am not sure how the failure at the end is hurting me yet. Cannot find anything or anyone on the web that talks of my problem.

Overall not impressed with the HD cameras - the AVCHD format is only recently editable by some of the more common video software.

Will keep trying but I would no rush out to buy this one (as I did) with the great hopes. I am going back to my tape camcorder for a while longer.