Before you fall in love with just any old camcorder, you need to know precisely what you're looking for, lest you realize somewhere down the road that you chose the wrong machine.
Except that it's not quite that simple: You have to finalize the disc in the camcorder before you can play it back on a DVD player, a process that takes from 30 seconds to 10 minutes.
We recommend using an external microphone instead of the one that is included with the camcorder, so you must look for a microphone-in jack. It is also good to have a headphone-out jack so you can ...