if your PC has a card/stick reader, I'd say the easiest is the card/stick. Just get it out of your camera and into your PC and start copying.
But it might be different if the camera comes with software that expects it to be connected via USB or Firewire and doesn't work directly on the card in your cardreader.
Kees
Out of mini dv,hard disk and memory card/stick (the media available today) which is the best medium for recording videos, HD as well as normal, from quality point of view and and then ease of trasfer to PC for making dvds

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