Entered CNET Catalog: 01/11/2003
SKU: DCR-DVD200
Manufacturer: Sony Electronics, Inc.
Manufacturer description
Sony's DCR-DVD200 DVD Handycam camcorder, records up to 520 lines of horizontal resolution MPEG2 video, and 1 megapixel resolution still images directly to a 8cm DVD-R/-RW disk. The tapeless DVD format enhances image quality and simplifies the editing process, and prevents recording over existing data by ensuring that only blank areas of the DVD disk are used. The DCRDVD200 is equipped with a USB 2.0/1.1 interface for direct recording and copying of material to a PC, a 2.5" hybrid LCD screen, InfoLITHIUM battery and a high quality Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar lens 10x Optical/120x Digital zoom lens, with Super SteadyShot and Super NightShot for even total darkness.User opinions
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User Rating: 
1/10
Just waste of money to buy this toy
Pros: dvd format, able to record on dvd-rw, erase it then re-record upto many times
Cons: No tech support, tech people don't know what they talking about. Video skips at the beginning and ending of the record, it's quality aren't any better than any DV camcorder out there. Video quality lost over the time after download them into pc and sit t
User Rating: 
7/10
Excellent, but hard to edit ..
Pros: The camera is excellent. Stable sharp pictures with excellent exposure and colors.
Cons: Editing is limited to Sony's software. Have not yet figured out how to read the movie into other movie editing software, which all assume DV-tape media.
User Rating: 
4/10
Great picture, not much else.
Pros: The picture is great.
Cons: Storage space on dvds is limited. Not Mac compatable. Editing software that's included stinks.
User Rating: 4/10
Can;t capture video or merge to standard DVD
Pros: Good product, but has one huge down side.
Cons: There is way to get those little DVD-RW's merged onto one 4.7 Gig DVD-R/W. There are no softwarepackages out there that do this. I called Sony, they had no opinion and provided no help. I can't return it anymore, so I will sell it and take the loss.
User Rating: 1/10
Wait until the bugs are worked out
Pros: Small size
Cons: Poor software, short record time, poor menues. Media is expensive and not available.
User Rating: 
10/10
Exceptional,Easy,Sharp Zoom, GREAT
Pros: DVD ready to view in any DVD player(video mode). Very easy to use. Zoom is sharp, colors true, small size, viewing screen wonderful.
Cons: Expense of the re-writable disks. Use the re-writable disks and re-format to record over and over again. THIS IS A WONDERFUL CAMERA !!!!
User Rating: 
5/10
Yo!! Sony DVD 2003!!
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