I am a servicer in electronics since 1979 and have seen a tremendous surge in the failure of CCD Image Sensors in the last five or so years. There is a design flaw with many of the newer ones which causes a black screen or smeared screen during record and on the resulting playback. Samsung too has the problem with ther models: SCD23, SCD103, SCD105 and SCD107 to name the ones I personally know about. Samsung neither admits the problem nor offers to repair it under warranty athough Sony, Canon and JVC will repair this problem for free if you send in the camcorder. Sony and Canon will even provide...review »