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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
0.5 stars
"I would vote 0 if i could. Sorry I meant -10"
Pros: You can record three disc or more on one battery charge.
Cons: See novel bellow, too many to list.
Summary: I shall never, ever, i repeat, ever purchase another sony product for the remainded of my life. Besides further aggrevating me with runaournd brainles emails form tech support, Sony knows they screwed up releasing this camera. It's obviouse by looking at the newest models that quickly replace this family. But hey, let's hit the bad points...
1. HORRIBLE INDOORS - My 1996 RCA VHS-C Does 100X Better and I bought it for 200 bucks, not 800.
2. Does not capture fast action without pixel-jizzle. (Cant really explain the term, but blurry blocks while in fast motion.
3. Screwy software, no suprise, and screwy audio/video codec that does not work with hardly any app except the pixela, which what in the world does this program REALLY DO besides convert the screwy format to MPEG-2 with even worse quality?
4. 20mins in high qaulity, false advertisment on the 60 min. DVD-RWs, they are double-sided for god sakes! You have to flip them over to use the other 30min. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
5. Blantanly lies about "Superior Video Qaulity" stated in the advertisments. like mentioned earlier my 1995 cam has better color reproduction anywhere anyplace and antyime.
6. Sony basically told me to go sit on a pole because their products are "Perfect".
Oh yeah one good thing is that it takes barely acceptable video outdoors in noon sunlight.
This camera is WAY to leaning on the infrared light sources even after disabling all infrared features, color reproduction is horible, example pinks are peach, purples are grey, sony should be sued for ripping off america.
Bottom line.. BAD SONY!!! BAD... Go to you room. I'm willing to trade for the panasonic dvd that is 200 bucks cheaper than my sony. Or even one of the older sony digi 8s, back when sony made a good product. I hate my camera, and i'm stuck with it. This camera sucks so bad, even the dealers on ebay have difficulty finding suckers.
And if you reading this sony, i tried for 4 months for you to resolve this issue, and all i have it the pole you told me to go sit on.Updated
If you found my review offensive, then you are a sucker like me and own one, or you truely do not know what good video without "blue and purple snow" in your picture is. Yes that's right, snow, the instruction book says its "normal".Updated
Sorry, for the intense verbal review. I get so aggrevated still after 7 months of suffering with my expensive purchase, feel totally taken advantage of and nothing i can do about it. I would just hate to see another human being endure the purchase of this camera, PLEASE. FIND ANOTHER DVD CAMCORDER! Try panasonic, phillips anyone else..
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i wish I did a little looking around on the net before I bought this stupid cam.... it really sucks.... feel like a *******. it looked really fancy, but it doesn't do anything. and yeah... sony specialises in bundling crappy software that doesn't do anything.
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We've had nothing but problems with this product and my wife and I have lost at least 25% of the content we recorded of the first year of our daughter's life, Christmas - destroyed!, our vacation last month - Destroyed!, and countless other memorable pictures/videos - Destroyed!
I would strongly recommend not buying this camera. Editing software stinks, it's slow, Sony cusotmer support is lowsy (they'll never admit to the product having flaws or other customers calling up with similar issues), but most importantly the camera will, out of the blue, not recognize any of the content on a DVD. This happens at least 25% of the time we use this camera. Everything seems fine when you record video and take photos, but when you go to finalize the DVD or sometimes even before that step you suddenly cannot view anything - other than a picture of a disk on the LCD spinning in the camcorder.
Again, product stinks!!!
