Quick installation, ease of use when you have some knowledge about the different DVD formats, the use of a hard drive. I was able to transfer all my videos that were dear to me of a VHS-C tape (old camcorder) on the hard disk drive. Then burn to DVD, I could do this directly but I wanted a backup hard drive (formatted very simple DVD). Then recovery DVD on my PC with Studio 14 pinnacle and I can now do video editing with the original analog videotapes. While the manual is not necessarily clear, but for basic operations, the camera turns easy to use. Only downside, the analog demodulator not useless since the passage of any digital TV.