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Article: Camcorders warm up to DVD; Now hitting the shelves: Three easy-to-use machines that record straight to disc. Are they worth the price?(FEATURES)(WORK & MONEY)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 28, 2003
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Byline: Noel C. Paul Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
The letters "DVD" keep popping up on consumer electronics. The format is now commonly used in movies, music, and video games. Consumers can buy DVD set-top boxes that "burn" television programs onto blank discs. Using computers with DVD-R drives, they can also burn movies and music downloaded (not always legally) from the Internet.
The next chapter in the DVD expansion: camcorders.
This spring and summer, three major videocamera makers are debuting camcorders that record directly onto blank DVDs. The discs can then be immediately plopped into a DVD player for viewing. ...