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Back in the early nineties I used to have a JVC video camera. It performed well and gave me plenty of good memories. Like every thing else, it became old and I also lost interest on video recording.

A few months ago I got a rewards program letter from one of my credit cards and in it I noticed the perfect machine, a Panasonic Video Recorder that converted VHS to DVD.

“That’s it!” I said. For the first time in my life, I decided to redeem those bank points and get something that could actually be used.

When I finally got it, I run up to my attic and picked some of those old VHS family videos, placed one in the machine, placed a sample DVD-R on the other side and pressed the button. To my surprise it actually worked. All of the sudden, I was watching my young daughter’s first home coming on my computer screen.

Since that delightful and surprising day, I’ve been copying old VHS to DVD movies quite often and have regained my old collection of old videos.

Thumbs up for technology



Talking about video recording…

My little daughter’s black belt ceremony was approaching and I wanted to
record this important event on video.

I needed to buy a video camera in a hurry but, as a web designer,I
wanted something decent, something that would make a video recording
good enough to be watched for years to come.

Being a “techy” I started to explore the net, reading reviews, study all the
specs and, the more I learned about Video, the higher the price tag was
getting. My first budget was about $300. Then I realized that at that price
I would never get anything decent. By the time I decided on a video
camera I was going to spend over $1600.

“My God” I said, so much for the $300 budget! Then I remembered
my old JVC camera and searched for a JVC. There she was, miracle of
miracles, a video camera that doesn’t need a DVD or a memory card; it
works on a tinny hard drive just like my computer, exactly 30gb.

“That’s it,” I said. I’m not going crazy spending money I don’t have. The
specs looked great so I decided to get it from Amazon.

To my delight, and I’ve been telling this to all my friends, I found a real
gem. So far I recorded two family shows and the large capacity hard drive
is still holding them in the camera. I haven’t had a chance to copy them to
a separate DVD but I’m not worried about that, there is still plenty of space
in the camera itself. This little machine (literally little) keeps 30 GB of video
inside of it, meaning that I can go on an extended vacation and just keep recording.

If you don’t know much about computers, JVC has an optional attachment
that makes an automatic copying to a DVD a snap.

Oh by the way, I had to purchase a bigger supplemental battery for longer
recordings; this way I’m able to travel the whole day with a good battery.

To my surprise, the video camera is so small that I put it in my large pocket
while taking still pictures with my Nikon D50 Camera.

Contributor: TA