The one and only...

Since i can't give it less than a single star...if this was a letter grade i'd give it an F minus!!!

Right now i'm in my SEVENTH hour trying to record my cousin's wedding video for his widow, one of the only moving image recordings she has of him...so you can understand why she's reluctant to give it out to one of the photo stores in the neighbourhood.

RIGHT NOW the PAUSE light is on although the RECORDING time meter is still running, and when i tried to view it on my computer on previous recordings i got no picture, although when i went to Roxio there was 4.4 gigs on the disc!

Of course, when you go to the Sony site it's IMPOSSIBLE to get any tech support, and i can't blame it all on the Vista since it doesn't play on the regular DVD player...so it looks like Sony is no longer the premier name in electronics:(

Ok for VHS, but a problem with Hi-8

When I first set this up it worked like a dream to copy VHS tapes, even using a non-Sony VCR. Then I tried to use it with a Firewire per the instruction manual to copy Hi-8 tapes from a Sony digital camcorder (DCR-TRV310). I get a message saying "recording will begin once the tape has rewound," but when rewound recording does not start, and I can't make it start, even when pressing the "play" button again manually on the camcorder, or by starting over with the tape rewound. I can't figure this problem out, since the camcorder works fine when, e.g., connected to a TV so I don't think that's the problem. Has anyone else had this problem? Could it somehow relate to the Hi-8 tapes, which were recorded with an earlier-generation Sony camcorder? Somehow if that were the issue I wouldn't expect it to be this problem, as compared to some kind of error message. Any solutions? I suspect that if I call Sony they'll tell me it's the camcorder's fault (although it's a Sony!)and I doubt that.

Sony DVD Recorder

I purchased this recorder to be used exclusively to transfer all my old VHS tapes onto DVDs. For this application it has performed perfectly. So far I have transferred about 40 tapes without a single failure. It permits me a certain amount of editing, ie, deleting portions, shuffling tapes, and it also allows to load anywhere from one to six hours on a DVD (with quality reduction at the longer times.) Good device.