why so difficult to import dvd to imovie

i have a fairly new dvd camcorder sony dcr-205 so i can record direct to dvd AND get widescreen.
WELL my path to get the da+%$#m dvd file .vob into imovie has shown me this

http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml

what a pain

can someone show me a simple simple simple path to get this into imovie like one step even if it cost a few bucks OR

does min dv camcorder come in wide aspect format or am i stuck with having my families video's forever in the "old" aspect ratio???

soooo from what i understand and searching this and apple discussion groups...imovie works best with minidv (i had one my wife droped it and i thought to spend to $$$$ to the sony dcr dvd205 i thought it was an upgrade....yea right.

this capability should be part of imovie or imovieHD so apple using people can "think different" namely simple....hey SJ add some value to your mac friends by doing this.....make imovie better for crying out loud.

help or i will just return the d...m camcorder.

here's a sort of work around....but i have to look at the specs. when i use my camcorder i am very aware using snipets and self editing. unlike others that just keep the thing rolling for every boring moment. if i do this and go to LP format so that a disc holds one hour (i could also use double sided discs) then i can just copy the minidisc from my external burner to my macbook burner. OK i don't use imovie but at least I can get the disk to my family members.

BUT if i want to use imovie then i have to go the above tedious path or return my sony for a minidv camcorder (part of the reason i went to the new camcorder is that it was dropped damaged the tape, but i sent it off to a repair company and they repaired it and put it on dvd)

any of you with experience with widescreen minidv and imovie???

i don't want to spend a lot on this if i go the imovie route (this would be my first time using it--i just took my tapes and had them put to dvd for family) i'm looking at the following minidv units one is widescreen but i don't know how this translates to widescreen in imovie.

JVC GR-D770 DV ---16:9 640x480 resolution 2.7"display

CANON ZR700 MINIDV--16:9 2.7"display

PANASONIC PV-GS80--16:9 2.7"display

SONY DCR-HC28--16:9 but the display is 2.5"

all are about $280

as far as checking out if imovie supported dvd camcorders, well i have never used imovie, i thought all camcorders had the ability to export to imovie, didn't realize that the dvd format was never intended to edit.... and all i wanted to do was put these minidiscs on a regular size dvd for storage, as i did with the original minidv tapes. a lot of this was my wife wanted me to copy a scene from a recent recording of my daughters friends piano concert (she's 6). that got the ball rolliing up the hill of frustration. i can copy using toast lite 6.0 and my external lacie burner. with all those tiny discs i will have to get a dvd-/+rw to get simple multisession ability so i can put 4 discs on one dvd. I just learned yesterday that i can remove the minidisc without finalizing to quickly put in another minidisc. i thought before you could exchange discs you had to finalize it. welllllll i find out i could label a disc and reuse it granted i couldn't play it on my home dvd unit but i could still play it from the camcorder. this would also simplify recording without having tons of minidiscs with only 8-10 minutes on each thus requiring me to multisession to a dvd

long story short....all this tech is hard to keep up with, specially since you may not know your needs 6months from now let alone a year. things change so fast and formats change as well.

you might be ashamed of me but here is how i got those 3 minidics into a new minidisk--
someone said to load them to a thumb drive then burn them to my macbook superdrive, or my lacie external, well that didn't work....why i can't even guess.

so what i did was since one disk could only be seen by playing with my camcorder i sent it to my VCR by recording it then played it back and using a new minidisc and a tripod i shot it off my big screen TV ........ did that for all the discs and removed the minidisc and WILL NOT FINALIZE TILL IT'S FULL.

it's a lot easier to work with mini dv that way you don't lose quality and you can use imovie, but since i'm pretty good about using snipetts for my family recording i think one minidisc on LP (60min) will work for a year. then i can copy it to a dvd later and send to family

also read as i was researching that apple superdrives can't do multisession......then why bother with dvd-/+rw???

just think this dvd format is not mac like--minidv is.