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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
4.0 stars
Pros: Small and easily carried. Very easy to record to mini DVD, finalize it and view it on any DVD player. Good zoom (takes a little learning to use it well) Doubles as both a digital camera and a Camcorder. Nice fade in, fade out feature. Plan to use the RW d
Cons: PC Software is terrible (not just the included Sony software). Several commercial software titles tried but none knew how to read directly from the disk (they want to read from the USB cable - slow download to your PC). Sony Tech support is extremely poo
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
1.5 stars
"WARNING DO NOT BUY THIS CAMERA!!!!"
Pros: IT IS NICE TO BE ABLE TO POP THE DVD I JUST RECORDED RIGHT INTO MY DVD PLAYER..VERY COMPACT..GOOD PICTURE QUALITY ALTHOUGH I AM NOT SURE IF IT IS AS GOOD AS CAMERAS THAT USE TAPE..
Cons: FIRST WHEN I BOUGHT THIS CAMERA I THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT...I WAITED AND DID NOT BUY LAST YEARS MODEL , THINKING THEY WOULD WORK OUT THE BUGS..SO I BOUGHT A SONY DCR-DVD201 IN MAY OF 2004 AND WAS EXICITED AFTER READING ALL THE GREAT REVEIWS ON THE PRODUCT...
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
1.0 stars
Pros: Good Outdoor picture quality and no spinning sound as previously noted by other reviers in the previous models. That's about the most postitive features.
Cons: I waited for this 2nd generation model to hit the market but I was nothing but disappointed. I purchased the DVD 201 through a retail chain 2 week ago and I see many yellow dots on the screen and it actually records to the DVD. It does not seem to happen
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
3.5 stars
"Nice camcorder, DVD fits my shooting preferences"
Pros: This is a nice camcorder it stacks up well against the competition regardless of recording medium. Feels solid, lcd doesn't wash out in the sunlight, small form factor and great image quality. The main reason I bought this because I wanted I wanted to g
Cons: Editing not worth the trouble. DVD only holds 25 minutes at standard quality vs about an hour on Mini DV tape (I find that to be plenty)
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0.5 stars
Pros: Sony quality hardware
Cons: 250 characters are not enough to write the cons
Pixela software required to download the vids to computer => NOT Vista or Mac compatible
Unreliable video format and duration
Expensive dvds
Sony/PIxela will charge (about 80 $) if you ever loose the CDSummary: I remember paying 1200 for this piece of work... read more
