videorecorders - info summary

[Dale, Philip S.]

And one more ...

JVC makes a dual deck, the HR-DVS3U, for about $1000, which can be used to playback mini-DV tapes and VHS tapes, and can convert in either direction. It also gives you the familiar jog-shuttle control for mini-DV, which is otherwise hard to get. 
mini-DV really does have vastly superior audio to VHS. I haven't yet explored mini-DV to PC, but hope to do so soon.

Philip Dale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
> [mailto:info-childes at mail.talkbank.org]On Behalf Of Barbara Pearson
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:02 AM
> To: edy veneziano
> Cc: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org; edy veneziano
> Subject: Re: videorecorders - info summary
> 
> 
> Dear Edy,
> 
> I'll just add a second to your report.
> 
> We bought a Sony digital 8 camcorder  2 years ago.
> It was less expensive and our needs are fairly limited.
> There have been 2 problems: the eject mechanism was
> taxed by our playing tapes back through the camera
> and it had to be fixed (by the dealer at fairly great
> inconvenience); and the tripod attachment
> is where the tape gets changed.  You have to really
> practice to be able to dismount the camera from the
> tripod, change the tape, and remount it, without
> losing too much of the event you're taping.
> 
> On the other hand, the output medium is convenient.
> We had a professional photographer recording
> at the same time onto mini-DVs.  We couldn't figure out a
> way to even view their tapes without a huge investment,
> so we had them put them on VHS.
> 
> I just mention them because these were things one needs
> to think about in advance, and no one reminded us to.
> 
> Good luck,
> Barbara
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 10:30 AM, edy veneziano wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to
> > Brain MacWhinney, Javier Aguado, Gary Morgan, Annick De 
> Houwer, Diane 
> > Pesco,
> > Yvan Rose, Karen Schauwers,  Géraldine Hilaire-Debove who 
> responded to 
> > my
> > query for advice on videorecorders and contributed very useful 
> > information
> >
> > As announced, I post a summary below, for those who might 
> also consider
> > buying new material.
> > Edy Veneziano
> >
> > SUMMARY of INFO on Videorecording material
> >
> > **The CHILDES site has very useful information on digital equipment 
> > ****
> >
> > Material bought between one and 3 years ago :
> > - JVC camcorders,- model GR-DVL 100.
> > quality of sound very good; are very robust.  are 
> recognized by Macs 
> > without
> > problems; come with a remote control which turned out to be 
> a useless
> > feature; flash light is too strong and annoying
> >
> > - Sony handicam ; Digital is delicate - needed to be  fixed 
> a couple of
> > times in 3 years; a lot more expensive than VHS-c and it is 
> only really
> > practical if you want to do a lot of direct saving from video to 
> > computer to
> > put on CDs (still not really practical to save in computers 
> it takes 
> > up a
> > lot of space)
> >
> > - Panasonic NV-DS37EG Digital Video Camera used in 
> conjunction with two
> > mono-directional light microphones - reception Azden
> > WR22-pro . Very good sound and image quality.
> >
> > -  Panasonic MiniDV model ) - it's really excellent. Easy 
> to use and 
> > great
> > sound and picture quality. check out the possibility of 
> transferring 
> > the
> > MiniDV format to VHS (for easy viewing).
> >
> >
> > Date of material unspecified- probably more recent
> >
> > - Panasonic AG-DVC15p - it's mini DV- It cost about $3000 
> Canadian.  
> > It's
> > bigger but good for stability and easy to operate; can record on 2 
> > channels
> >
> >
> > -Sony Digital-8 camcorders. They're very good and
> > a bit less expensive than mini-dv.; compatible Hi8
> >
> > - Panasonic NV-GS3 (mini DV), which is an excellent
> > digital camera. It is small , good for following subjects anywhere
> > as other digital camcorder can be connected directly to 
> computer, for
> > transcription with CLAN connected to video fragments
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> *****************************************
> Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph. D.
> Project Manager, Research Assistant
> Dept. of Communication Disorders
> University of Massachusetts
> Amherst MA 01003
> 
> 413.545.5023
> fax: 545.0803
> 
> bpearson at comdis.umass.edu
> http://www.umass.edu/aae/
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