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 Wrong Expectations November 23, 2008
J. Babu
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this product with high expectations. I am a Sony afficianado (Sony Everything) and will not apologize for it. This product disappoints mainly because
- It chops off the top and the bottom portions of the video from a MiniDV (transfered using a iLink cable). my 4:3 video will look like a 16:9 but I lose picture!! Close upshots lose the forehead and chin while long shots lose the picturesque mountain peaks.
- Video quality using a Sony camcorder supplied A/V cable (Red, White, Yellow) was very bad.
I am returning mine and will wait for another product.
 Great tool for creating DVDs from old movies November 23, 2008
Jim W (Burke, VA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This unit is easy to use in transferring Hi-8 and VHS tapes direct to DVD. Also, another VERY interesting feature is that you can hook up your Hi-8 video camera to the VRDMC5 and switch the video camera on AS IF you were going to record videos on Hi-8 tape. The images that would be taped then immediately show up in the VRDMC5 monitor. I was able to use a Telecine Converter and play old Super 8 movie reels with the Hi-8 camera on and ready to record (but with no Hi-8 tape in it) and the images were captured direct to DVD on the VRDMC5 recorder. This has saved me thousands of dollars I would otherwise have spent with a video conversion service. This is a great investment for anyone with this kind of a project to tackle.
No sound with a Mono input November 23, 2008
Keith Sargent (Rockville, Maryland USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have an older camcorder (Panasonic PV-L501D) and VCR (Panasonic PV-9400) that have only mono outputs (not stereo). tHe VRD-MC5 will not record any sound from my VHS or VHS-C tapes. I contacted Sony to ask for a software upgrade, but was told they could not provide one. They also told me that they do not guarantee the VRD-MC5 to work with all models of camcorders and VCR's. I will try to find a "Y" RCA male cable to see if providing two input signals, instead of one, will get the sound will work. If it doesn't, I'm sending the VRD-MC5 back to Amazon.
Update: I tried the RCA "Y" cable, but the result was the same: a nice looking picture with no sound. Back it goes -- Amazon makes the return process simple for defective products.
Makes child's play of copying Hi8 tapes to DVDs! November 21, 2008
Redman1953 (Saint Louis, MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product is simply amazing! It's so easy to use that it's just incredible. I was able to start copying my old Hi8 camcorder tapes to DVDs in literally just minutes. And the results are fabulous! I played back my first DVD on a 52" 1080p LCD TV using a Blu-Ray player and the DVD videos copied from my 12-year old Hi8 tapes looked absolutely magnificent! I couldn't believe my eyes! It has an easy to use menu to guide you quickly through the setup. Aesthetically it's a homely little device, but it's very well laid out, trivially easy to use and quite versatile. And who can beat the great price and speedy delivery from Amazon! I highly recommend this product!
Update: I have now used it to burn an AVCHD-formatted DVD directly from my Sony HDR-SR12 Hi-Def camcorder. This is done via an included USB cable. It turns out that this is even easier than doing a Hi8 to DVD burn, plus you get complete retention of the hi-def recording and it plays on a Blu-Ray player with full 1080 resolution. It even includes the 5.1 surround sound audio from the Sony camcorder. Fantastic result and it only took minutes to do. A regular DVD disk, of course, won't fit very much hi-def content--but still it's terrific quality and very quick and soooo easy to do!
 SONY DVDirect November 19, 2008
Huy J. Tae (California USA)
Disappointed that the memories cards readers do not transfer video, it for photo only. The USB only recognize SONY camcorders.
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