High the problem seems to be that this camcorder doesn’t use dvd-rw disks, I have ordered some DVD-RAM disks to try them (it seems that it only uses DVD-RAM and DVD-R disks) but they haven’t arrived yet (bought on EBay cheapest place I have found) (I have found that the guts are basically the same as a Hitachi DZ-MV100E which also only uses DVD-RAM and DVD-R disks). Hope this helps. Andy T