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Shoot your next big event without tapes or DVDs and record directly to hard drive. Housing a 60GB Hard Disk Drive, the DCR-SR80 captures up to 40 hours of brilliant, high-quality video.The DCR-SR80 houses a 60GB Hard Disk Drive that stores up to 40 hours of high-quality videos in standard 4: 3 and 16: 9 widescreen formats. With 12x Optical/800x Digital Zoom and a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar Lens, everything will be as clear as you remember it. Plus, sharing everything you've captured with family, colleagues and friends has never been easier with One Touch DVD Burn capabilities. You can burn directly from the camcorder or the Handycam Station cradle. Additionally, you can connect to a DVDirect burner to create DVDs without having to connect to a PC.
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 Works good for what I need |
| Review Date: October 24, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Joseph T. Bohnert Jr., |
Some of the reviewers comments about stills and low light video conditions may be true, but I haven't experienced them yet. I mostly use it to record my children's soccer and football games (which usually take place during daylight hours). The optical zoom is enough for these high school sports and under these conditions, the picture quality is very good.
The included software is pretty worthless though. If you want to do anything with the video (except burn directly to DVD), you will need some other software.
I am very pleased with the DCR-SR80 and would buy it again. |
Next generation -Handy cam (Sony DCR-SR80 60GB 1MP Hard Disk Drive Handycam with 12x Optical Zoom )
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| Review Date: October 9, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Panda, Bloomington, IL, USA |
I got it for $678 in Amazon and being one of the 1st customer to use and review the product since its lunched by the manufacturer in Sept 21st 2006, I found this Wonderful product- excellent for both Indoor and outdoor recording. No hassles converting Analog to digital on your PC.. one step DVD burning made my life easier. - Highly recommended for home use.. the price is worth its value..
Strengths..
1. Direct MPEG2 Format Recording.
2. Dolby Digital Audio Recording
3. Professional quality Product at affordable price
4. Light weight.
5. Harddrive Shock proof technology - Hopefully it will work as described |
Sony DCR - SR 80
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| Review Date: February 7, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Maryann Rohrabaugh, |
| This camera has been great. I haven't used it to much but the times that I have its been really nice, the quality of the movies are really good. I also liked that I didn't need any tapes. That would have been a big hassle. The main reason this camera was purchased was because I was getting married and it did the job quite well. I would recommend if you doing any outside filming that need sound of other people to get a microphone. I received one free from amazon when I bought the camera. It was made by Sony for the camera. I would recommend this camera to other people. |
Great camcorder!
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| Review Date: January 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: jodie auser, |
| I had such a hard time choosing the right hard drive camcorder! According to most of the comments on the web all HD camcorders are of poor quality, or have software problems or something else. So i had to decide myself at the end and I converged on this one, which was a great pick, so easy to use, of incredible quality, and so far no problems with burning the DVDs! Slight compatibility problems between the existing burning software present on my laptop and the Sony software... But once solved, I love it and I love the touchscreen! I got the whole package with an extra battery, but I still haven't used it! The battery lasts pretty long. |
Perfect for what I needed
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| Review Date: January 10, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Angie T, Metairie, La United States |
My boyfriend is in a local band and plays a lot of shows in dark bars, so I was on the lookout for a camera with decent night vision as well as easy uploading to my computer. I also wanted to convert some VHS tapes to dvd and maybe do a few family and personal video recording. This camera does everything I needed it too.
The picture quality is fantastic even when I tend to keep it on the lowest setting. The nightvision can make things a bit green when its really dark, and it can take a bit longer to focus, but it is much better than the dark mess I was recording with my digital camera. The hard drive makes transferring to your computer incredibly easy.
My only complaint is that whenever I open a video file using Windows Media Player, I get an error about the codec. The videos will play with no problems but there is that delay each time and it seems to prevent you from viewing a preview image on the file. It also would have been nice if the software allowed you to paste videos together and create transitions rather than just allowing you to cut scenes out.
The battery life is ok. I find that I tend to get 90 minutes each time. The camera is lightweight and easier to deal with than older cameras but my hand and arm do get tired after awhile.. I suggest getting a tripod. |
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