My first purchase was a Cinevision RV4000 DVDR/vhs player which at first seemed to be fine for my plan was to copy all my home movies to DVD. Three things happened that troubled me...
1) I looked on the Cinevision(Go Video) website and discovered that they a software problem and I need to download two patches to fix the problems. one problem was that the player would lockup after being left on for more than a few hours(I just mean the power being left on, not playing movies).
2) the player makes noise at night even when no dvd is in the player.
3) the dvd player has no firewire or DVI input for my digital camcorder.
I had some DVD's from Europe that are PAL and noticed they would play on it.
So last night, I went and bought a fairly expensive Sony DVDR/VCR and although it has much better quality than the Cinevision and can record on both +RW and -RW, it wouldnt play PAL DVD.
I seem to be in a bit of a pickle over this as I only originally wanted to copy my home movies from VHS, Hi8 and MiniDV. I only have a few VHS to copy though, maybe the computer would be a better choice to do all this? I was thinking that maybe I dont need the combo unit and just hook up my DV camcorder to a VCR to record what VHS tapes I want to DV and then to DVD. That would leave rest to straight hookup from the camcorders.
