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.
January 19th, 2008 at 11:30 am
So does anyone know if this Canon DVD burn is fully compatible with the new MacBook Air? If so, that would be good timing.
November 5th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
We were getting ready to go on a cruise, and this had just hit the market. I loved the idea of an underwater camera, but was hesitant as I was not impressed by the picture quality of others I had seen (Olympus). The d10, far exceeded my expectations. Yes, it is a bit bulky, and the controls require a bit of re-learning, but the pictures are phenomenal. Underwater and above-water, the images are sharp. It takes better quality images than my old Canon s500, and absolutely takes better images than my wife’s Casio and Nikon.
When I bought this burner, I was sure that I read that you could download the video to your computer, edit it, then upload it to the camcorder and use this burner to create DVDs. I was wrong. The burner will only take raw clips from the camera. And be sure to download them to the burner first, because if you download them to your computer first, the DVD burner won’t recognize them even though the files haven’t been touched. This is simply a device to create backups. I gave it two stars, because it does backup the raw data successfully.