Which I've seen being sold at Best Buy!?! What's up with that? Anyways, that's one technical hurdle cleared.
"There are menus, just ordinary ones....basically a menu with all the titles.....and the recorder automatically makes chapters every 6 minutes or so as you record."
I kinda figured it would. Don't worry, since these can easily be dumped.
"What are the VOBs? Files on the DVD? I have Windows 2000, so no worries there."
They are "Video Object" files, comprising primarily of the audio and video.
"Another thing I'm hoping is that the quality doesn't get degraded when I go into the computer and then back on to DVD again....will there be any problems with that?"
Once it's on the computer, there's a lot you can do without messing up the files. The only reason the VOB files are broken up into 2GB sections is for backwards compatibility with FAT file limitations. W2000 and XP can use NTFS, which can recognize files >2GB. At the very least, it allows you to compile an entire 2 hour film as one whole file, to be subsequently broken up by your DVD compiling program.
Your DVD player will jump from VOB to VOB seamlessly, as will a software player on your computer.
