Sony VRD-MC5 Burns DVDs with One Touch from AVCHD Handycams

If you are the owner of one of Sony’s line of HDD camcorders, having to connect your camcorder to your PC to burn the video to disk can be a bit of a pain. Sony feels you and has a new DVD burner called the VRD-MC5 that connects directly to their AVCHD HD camcorders via USB. Once connected you can burn to DVD with a single button press, can’t get much easier than that. The burner has a 2.5” LCD, Firewire, S-Video and memory stick slots covering SD/SDHC, xD, CF plus Sony’s own formats. The burner will write to normal DVDs as well as the small 8cm DVDs that the Sony direct to DVD camcorders use. The VRD-MC5 is sat for release on August 10th for a price of $247.