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A friend bought the Sony DVD203 and while I am very pleased with the camera
he can't say the same for the software that came with it.
"As the salesman said, just pop the mini DVD in the computer and read it.
Haven't been able to make that work yet." My virtually new HP doesn't
recognise the mini DVD in the DVD drive (any help here would be appreciated).
Just plug in the USB cable and download the DVD from the camera. Did that
but the software is so stripped down that you can't do anything with it.
Just create DVD's. If you do put together any kind of video, the stripped
down software won't write to a DVD on the computer, only back to the mini DVD
in the camera.
So get an expensive software package to do it. All expensive software
packages (including SONY's own) support reading from the camera via an IEEE
1394 (Firewire) cable. Not the USB which is the only port on the Sony DVD
203. SONY's answer "Oh yea, none of the software supports USB, only Firewire.
Just use the package that came with the camera to download to the hard drive,
then use a better package to create DVD's".
So, while the camera is easy to use and I can't begin to know all the
features, I would have to say at this point that I am very dissapointed in
SONY.
Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
A friend bought the Sony DVD203 and while I am very pleased with the camera
he can't say the same for the software that came with it.
"As the salesman said, just pop the mini DVD in the computer and read it.
Haven't been able to make that work yet." My virtually new HP doesn't
recognise the mini DVD in the DVD drive (any help here would be appreciated).
Just plug in the USB cable and download the DVD from the camera. Did that
but the software is so stripped down that you can't do anything with it.
Just create DVD's. If you do put together any kind of video, the stripped
down software won't write to a DVD on the computer, only back to the mini DVD
in the camera.
So get an expensive software package to do it. All expensive software
packages (including SONY's own) support reading from the camera via an IEEE
1394 (Firewire) cable. Not the USB which is the only port on the Sony DVD
203. SONY's answer "Oh yea, none of the software supports USB, only Firewire.
Just use the package that came with the camera to download to the hard drive,
then use a better package to create DVD's".
So, while the camera is easy to use and I can't begin to know all the
features, I would have to say at this point that I am very dissapointed in
SONY.
Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.