[ksfrogman]

I recently purchased a Sony DCR-HC36, which takes decent videos, but it is so difficult to transfer media to my comp. The crappy software that comes with the camera saves video to CD-RW ONLY? WTF? Why won't it let me save to hard drive?

I took some nice video footage of the Bimmerfest '06, and want to share it, but the files saved to my CD-R are .dat files. When I convert them to windows media files, they play at a faster than normal rate.

I then went to downloads.com, and installed 2-3 different programs, but none of them detect that my Handycam is connected to the comp. Btw, my videocam is connected via USB cable to the comp. Should I have a different type of connector? The manual says something about i.Link--is this some sort of hotwire?

Why does this have to be so difficult? This is frustrating.