Just bought a Sony Handycam 408. Makes great quality videos directly to DVD. Very simple to use. Has a nice touch screen interface. The DVDs are a bit pricey, but the camcorder ewasily connects to a DVD burner to write to larger DVDs. you can then re-use the DVD-RW. Also, takes nice pictures if you buy the memory card. You can also take a few pictures while you're recording video. I've been very pleased so far.