- Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 12 reviews Back to product review
- My rating: 0 stars
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0.5 stars
"DON'T buy, doesn't save to DVDs reliably!!!"
Pros: Small and light. Basic, good enough for most needs.
Cons: Battery life is less than advertised. Extra batteries (or larger batteries) are very hard to find in stores. Hitachi does not seem well-supported by electronics stores.
Summary: Can't believe this camera has a "5-star" rating on Amazon.com! This camera wasted lots of my time recording important events and then was unable to reliably "finalize" my discs for display on my DVD players. I recorded 5 brand-new discs at an event last night, everything seemed fine, and then later that night two of the five discs failed to finalize and gave messages about the discs being corrupted or unreadable. The only options were to fix the problems by re-formatting the discs and permanently losing contents of two of the discs. (That's a 40% rate of loss!) I used the recommended Maxell DVD-RW discs to avoid exactly this sort of problem and still got very poor results.
In advance of a big vacation in two weeks I'm going out to shop for another camera tonight. DON'T BUY THIS CAMERA.
Hitachi DZ-BX35A:
