Canon DW-100 Portable DVD Burner

At last, I hear you cry, just what I always wanted, a portable DVD burner. Canon know their stuff, I will give them that. I have had many Canon products over the years, and the one thing you can say about Canon is they make a good quality, solid product that does what it’s supposed to do.

The DW-100 portable DVD burner seems to fit that – well made, functional and not too expensive. There were some mutterings at CES that this had too few features, but, as far as I am concerned, it burns DVDs and that’s all I expect of it.

Designed to burn DVDs directly from the Canon range of camcorders in standard DVD or AVCHD DVD formats, I am not sure what other functionality I would want. Any editing should be done either post burn or at source, not on this – it’s a burner, that’s it.

It looks good and more importantly only has three buttons. Big buttons at that – power, record and eject – I like it.

I’m not sure I see a huge demand for this, but if you are wishing you had bought a camcorder that made DVDs, here’s your answer. Price $269, and they should be available from April this year.