I have a Canon HF100 and saw the DW-100 on Canon's site. I says:

The DW-100 allows you to connect to a Canon HG10, HF10/100 as well as the FS11, FS10 and FS100 camcorders to download video and burn AVCHD or Standard Definition DVDs.

But its also cheap -- $269MSRP but far less online.

Does it work? Is the data written as-is with no loss in quality?

Canon's description of this drive is misleading - they make it sound like it will burn AVCHD or Standard Def DVD's from your HF10/100 but it will only burn standard def DVD's when connected to camcorders that record in standard def (not the HF10). Essentially you build a playlist in the HF10 and it burns the clips to an AVCHD disk using the more expensive variant of dual layer discs and I read it rather picky on what brand of disks work with it (verbatim). These discs will not play back later from the burner to a hi-def TV unless the HF-10 is connected to the burner ( i guess the HF10 is used as the video I/O interface).

The discs it burns can be played back on a PS3 or other blue ray players that support AVCHD. So it really doesn't offer a whole lot more functionality than you already have from the DVD burner in your PC other than freeing up your PC from archiving duty.

Rich

...it really doesn't offer a whole lot more functionality than you already have from the DVD burner in your PC other than freeing up your PC from archiving duty.

Ah, but I'm on a Mac. Not sure you can burn the correct AVCHD structure for Bluray playback.

I'm only interested in HD and not SD.

Also are the dual layer discs limited to 1 hr -- figuring a 8GB SD card stores 1 hr?

I believe Toast 9 will let you burn AVCHD formatted disks to play on blu ray from a Mac and its only $80.

http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html

Rich