Sony Handycam DCR-DVD105

Pros: Inexpensive

Cons: Could not get to edit the video.

Summary: I went through a lot of pain with this camera. There is no fire wire or USB connection to the PC so you drop the Mini-Disk in place. Sony provides Nero Express, but it says you need to buy new converter$$. Even then that's not editing, it's just making a DVD disk.

I tried the top line version of Roxio and Pinnacle software and they would not read the disk. Talking to their support was a waste of time. They all said "use a third party converter" but none would recommend one. so I tried them and the software would refuse to read the output files although I could use Media Player no problem.

In the end I had Sony, Roxio, and Pinnacle all say they were sorry and it was not their problem.

I did get a 3rd party converter to work with Roxio, but Roxio editing was terrible and crashed.

I sent the camera back and got one with a USB connection to by-pass the disk format issue.