My girlfriends mums looking for a digital camcorder and i perosnally dont have a clue, so i was wondering if any of you guys have an idea?

What she wants :

Easy to use.
Easy to put onto DVD.
Quite cheap.
Reliable.

Ive had a look at :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/JVC-GR-D720-Mini-Digital-Camcorder/dp/B000NJUTUO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1197291084&sr=8-4

but thought id ask you lot before suggesting some to her.

Cheers for the help.

I have 2 Sony camcorders, they are both Excellent. From what Ive read Id buy Sony. My DVD one fell into a stream a few weeks back and afterwards, a week of drying out and it worked fine and dandy.

If you want it to easilly put on DVD Id recommend a Sony DVD camcorder, the discs are cheap enough, I think I got a spindle of 25 mini DVDs from 7dayshop.com I think, for under £8.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/136262 < this would be ok, but it has electronic image stableisation, which is worse than optical stableisation.

Although with Mini DV camcorders I think they have a longer time you can record on as youll only get about 40 mins on a mini DVD, depending on short or long play.

Cheers for the feedback

Have been looking at :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-DCR-DVD106-Handycam-Camcorder-Screen/dp/B000MJYQS6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1197291084&sr=8-2

With a DVD Camcorder, is it possible to rewind and record over something?
Will the DVD play instantly then in any DVD-player?

Sorry for all the Qs, i have no clue with camcorders.

Standard DVD-Rs they are a write once medium so you wont be able to write over them, no idea about rewriteables but I think that some have the problem of you having to reformat them on a PC.

Probably better to go for a hard disk HD one. A good one should give you at least seven hours recording on the internal drive.