Fine camcorder, minor battery complaint
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2007
Sony - Handycam DCR-DVD108 DVD Camcorder —
The LCD screen on my one-year-old DCR-HC21 miniDV camcorder stopped working so I figured it was a good time to upgrade to a mini DVD camcorder I've been wanting for a while. The DVD108 is great, and so much more user-friendly than a miniDV camcorder. I love that there's no more rewinding, fast-forwarding or searching for scenes on a tape. There are nice thumbnail images on the DVD making it easy to find scenes. Also there's a play button in record mode, so no need to toggle the dial back and forth between play and record. And it's nice to be able to review scenes, then start recording again right away without having to find the end of the last scene. You can't accidentally record over footage on a DVD.The SP quality on miniDV tape looks slightly better than SP on miniDVD. So I'm switching to HQ recording, which will only give me 20 minutes of recording on a 1.4GB miniDVD, but they're cheap enough to buy a bunch.
Now, I purchased another Sony because I read that the batteries are compatible with both my old and new camcorders. This was important because I could use the 3 other (very expensive) extended Sony batteries from my old camcorder. A little side note about Sony, they are lunatics with proprietary technology. In other words, their products will often work only with their own branded accessories. I bought an off-brand battery before which fit on my old camcorder, and it powered up for a few seconds before telling me to use a Sony brand battery, before it shut down.
Anyway, I try to attach my "old" batteries to the new camcorder and they don't fit. However the new battery fits and works on my old camcorder. I then realize that Sony intentionally changed the locking tabs design on the new batteries so that they would be backward-compatible with older products, but the tabs on the old batteries would not fit on my new camcorder. Therefore I have to buy new extended batteries for my new camcorder. I just can't believe the ways Sony will screw with consumers and force them to buy more of their products.
Well that's my only tirade about this camcorder, otherwise it's fantastic. I mostly bought it because I burn all my miniDV tapes to DVD anyway, so this way I can save a lot of time.
Last edited on Apr 15, 2008
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