Newbie Novice Questions

[jeanjo]

Help please. We have a Canon Vixia HD camcorder with flash memory and we are wondering if there is such a thing as a blue-ray player recorder that would allow us to download video & photos from the camera flash card directly to a blue-ray disk on the player/recorder. We do not need an edit option. If there is such a thing, is it possible to then take the blue-ray disk w/photos in to have them processed into hard copies? Thanks for your help!

[MikeDaWiz]

Originally Posted by jeanjo

Help please. We have a Canon Vixia HD camcorder with flash memory and we are wondering if there is such a thing as a blue-ray player recorder that would allow us to download video & photos from the camera flash card directly to a blue-ray disk on the player/recorder. We do not need an edit option. If there is such a thing, is it possible to then take the blue-ray disk w/photos in to have them processed into hard copies? Thanks for your help!

Careful. Some people might not like the term blue-ray. Blu-Ray. I know one guy had an entire forum posting for correct ways to say Blu-Ray.

I have not heard of a blu-ray camcorder. the technology is still too new i think. Remember how long it took for the dvd camcorders to come out. i have a feeling we have a wait ahead of us

[jeanjo]

We are looking for a Blue-Ray player/recorder that we can download/record HD video from our camcorder directly to a Blue-Ray disc. I've seen some that mention that they accept the flash memory cards so I'm wondering if we can make a disc on the player/recorder from our flash memory cards? I'm probably asking for something that doesn't exist but I thought I'd give it a try!

Thanks.

[Johnny Vinyl]

As far as I know, there are currently no Blu-ray recorders available, outside of Japan. I would suspect we would see one shortly though.

I'm also not aware of Blu-ray player/recorder drives for PC, but someone could correct me on that.

John

[rdodolak]

Blu-ray burners for the PC do exist. This would allow you to copy video/photos to the disc as a storage medium. I'm not familiar with that camcorder, but you may need additional software (Canon may have provided software) if you want the HD video to play on a blu-ray player

[jeanjo]

Pardon my ignorance but I've been looking at some Blue-Ray player/recorders that are available in the states which makes me think that I'm missing something. If they are Blue-Ray players/recorders do they not record Blue-Ray? Are these machines only set up to record from a hi def tv to a disc in some other format? Again, I'm really a novice at this and find some of the information that is out there very confusing. If the Blue-Ray player/recorders are not available in the states yet does anyone have any idea how soon they might be available?

Thanks again!

[jeanjo]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Blu-ray burners for the PC do exist. This would allow you to copy video/photos to the disc as a storage medium. I'm not familiar with that camcorder, but you may need additional software (Canon may have provided software) if you want the HD video to play on a blu-ray player

If I understand you correctly you are talking about downloading to a PC to copy to a disk? I'm trying to bypass this step by downloading and recording directly to a Blue-Ray disk through the player/recorder. I'm guessing that this technology may not exist yet?

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by jeanjo

Pardon my ignorance but I've been looking at some Blue-Ray player/recorders that are available in the states which makes me think that I'm missing something. If they are Blue-Ray players/recorders do they not record Blue-Ray? Are these machines only set up to record from a hi def tv to a disc in some other format? Again, I'm really a novice at this and find some of the information that is out there very confusing. If the Blue-Ray player/recorders are not available in the states yet does anyone have any idea how soon they might be available?

Thanks again!

Which players are you referring to?

Originally Posted by jeanjo

If I understand you correctly you are talking about downloading to a PC to copy to a disk? I'm trying to bypass this step by downloading and recording directly to a Blue-Ray disk through the player/recorder. I'm guessing that this technology may not exist yet?

Yes, I'm referring to downloading the info to a PC and copying to disc. I'm not aware of any current standalone players that have this capability.

[jeanjo]

listed under Blue-Ray that say they play and record.



About - Panasonic DMP-BD80
The DMP-BD80 is a dvd player & recorder available from Panasonic.
Standard features include:
BD-Live : Ready
Multichannel analog-audio outputs : Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, Dolby TrueHD 7.1, DTS Digital 5.1, DTS-HD High Resolution audio 7.1, DTS-HD Master audio 7.1
Plays MP3 audio files on CDs : Yes
Screen saver : Yes
The DMP-BD80 typically costs between $200.99 - $443.82

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by jeanjo

listed under Blue-Ray that say they play and record.



About - Panasonic DMP-BD80
The DMP-BD80 is a dvd player & recorder available from Panasonic.
Standard features include:
BD-Live : Ready
Multichannel analog-audio outputs : Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, Dolby TrueHD 7.1, DTS Digital 5.1, DTS-HD High Resolution audio 7.1, DTS-HD Master audio 7.1
Plays MP3 audio files on CDs : Yes
Screen saver : Yes
The DMP-BD80 typically costs between $200.99 - $443.82

OK, I see what you're saying. It appears the CR got it wrong and there are several errors referring to it as a DVD player. First, it lists this Blu-ray player under the generic DVD players and(/or) recorders section. Then it states "is a dvd player and recorder" which is most likely a copy/paste error.

The player will play recorded media (e.g. disc, memory card, camcorder, etc.) but the product info doesn't mention anything about recording to media. Here are a few links to the Panasonic website:

Specs on the DMP-BD80K:
http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-e...702#tabsection

You can download the manual from:
http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-e...odel.DMP-BD80K