
Ok Ok I got bamboozled into this buy due to "improving but degrading" technology. <p>I accept been application Digital-8 and I capital a new mini-DV but this year (2004) Sony decreased the dent (imaging sensor) admeasurement to 1/6" in the mini dv band models. Aboriginal reviews from camcorderinfo.com are not agog (smaller chip college babble in the image base low ablaze achievement and some blush assimilation issues) this packing added pixels into a abate die admeasurement problems are accurate in agenda cameras (the abate added close sony 8mp agenda camera sensor) as able-bodied as in "new improved added pixels" camcorders.<p>So afterwards account of this "improvement" and browsing the added reviews I discovered: <br>1) the sony DCRDVD100 has the bigger dent (1/4") admeasurement (vice 1/4.7" for the 200 and 300 and 1/6" dent (same as the 2004 mini dv band model) for the 2004 dcrdvd101 dvd camcorder)<br>2) the analysis reviews from endure year (100 vs 200) said the 200 "drops from the abilities of the DVD100" in video performance. (you don't EVEN wish to apprehend how ailing the new even abate 1/6" dent in the 101 does compared to those two!)<br>3) there were still some 100's accessible as of mid-may this year.<br>4) all able (broadcast quality) camcorders are on the border of traveling tapeless this year or next eg the trend will alone accomplish dvd camcorders added common.<p>So actuality was the cheapest dvd camcorder sony fabricated endure year outperforming it's added big-ticket aggregation and even the<p>"degraded" archetypal for this year! Yep wasn't planning on it's purchase but abiding didn't wish lose video achievement by cat-and-mouse for one!<p>Gripe 1 the 100 takes awful still photos. Ok so you can yield a megapixel still pic with the 200 and 300. 1mp is still awful in the 8mp era of digtal still cameras. And any camera buzz can do a bigger photo easier. So I am not accommodating to barter the above low light low babble capabilities on video in the DVD100 to accretion (still) characterless still account achievement in the 200 or 300 which I will never use.<p>Next gripe there are no mini-DVD's available and the bulk is too high! Standard complaint with the addition of every new technology. I paid $8ea. for the aboriginal Maxell 120 VCR tapes aback in the mid-eighties now that buys 10 of them! Froogle mini dvd-r and you may acquisition a array of 25 mini dvd-r's for $1 ea. (on sale) like I did in mid-may. Next year at this time they may be 50 cents each approved price. NOW analyze that to the bulk of mini-dv tape!<p>S'hows it look? I can't see any aberration on playback amid the DCRDVD100 and my 3 year old TRV-730 agenda eight camcorder but the accessibility is a thousand times better. The mini-dvd's play on my tv dvd they play on my pc dvd they play on the camcorder dvd. try that with mini-dv or 8mm dv! I can accomplish mini-dvd duplicates application the camcorder and PC and forward these mini-dv's to any about to allotment our videos with. I never had the backbone to alteration 8mm to VCR not to acknowledgment the bulking up agency of VCR duplicates.<p>ok so the time is down to 20 mins per disk. About the aforementioned bulk of accordant footage I get off a 1 hour 8mm tape in which I just stick the 8mm camcorder in a bend and let run at parties too beefy to carry. accumulation too back the 8mm band is still $4ea and I've got that abounding advantage application 3 mini dvd-r's at $1 ea.<p>And absolve sony for befitting the aforementioned battery charger and beam accessories as in my 8mm dv! Now I accept the aforementioned batteries to run my cd-r agenda camera the 8mm camcorder and this dvd-r video camcorder. a complete dollar savings!<p>Sony has consistently won the low-light abounding blush calm camcorder action contests but with the new reduced-size imaging chips for the 2004 models they allegedly accept slipped a cleft backwards. So if complete all-round video achievement is the a lot of important affair for you I animate you to run not airing to locate the DVD100 afore they are all gone. Or delay until the archetypal 102 for 2005 is introduced!<p>other pros: accumulator admeasurement of completed videos<br>instant useability/exchangeability with added machines besides the camcorder no band drive mechanisms to abrasion out and eat your admired videos years down the road. affecting abatement in amount of mini dvd-r media compared to micro-dv mini-dv and 8mm dv tape. <p>cons: no firewire affiliation to acquiesce absolute agenda duping I'd adulation to use the sony mini-dvd-r's to download my agenda SLR camera's images into a abiding book while I am traveling but assumption that will accept to delay until 2005? <p>I like it recommended.
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