The Panasonic VW-BN01 Portable DVD Burner is designed to record video from a camcorder onto a DVD disc. It connects directly to your camcorder via high-speed USB 2.0 and copies your home movies to a DVD disc that can be played in home DVD players. The VW-BN01 can also serve as a DVD/CD player by connecting it to your HDTV or SDTV. It works with the support of the camcorder's output. The VW-BN01 can connect to your PC as well. The USB 2.0 interface lets you copy video that has been edited on your PC, directly to a DVD disc. According to Panasonic, its 2013 line up of camcorders is not compatible with this unit.
Record
The VW-BN01 can record from camcorders and from your PC via USB 2.0. It records to DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD+R DL discs. It can record at up to 16x speed and has a buffer capacity of 2MB
Playback
The VW-BN01 can playback DVDs and CDs through your HDTV or SDTV. It works with the support of your camcorder's output
Camcorder Compatibility
Works with several Pansonic camcorders, but does not work with Panasonic's 2013 line up of camcorders