 "Waited a year to post THIS review to be fair!!!!" | 2009-07-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3RW5L3VTUUQEY |
I bought this for a Disney Trip last September and used it a lot since.
Pros:
1. Easy to use. Just pop in a mini dvd and record.
2. Mini DVD finaliztion process is a snap, and the dvd will play in most dvd players.
CONS: WHY I RATED IT 1 STAR!!!!!!!!!
1. Forget shooting at night. I tried several settings to adjust the night feature to include the night shot lighting. IT SUCKS. Everything looks infrared. My older JVC mini8 took better shots at night. I recently return from the beach and the night shot around the bonefire looked horrible. THIS camcorder is only good during the day. July 4th fireworks all looks blueish red at best.
2. IT BROKE! I used it(Parties,beach twice, Disney). This camera has a focus issue...look to other forums under error 61:11. Eventually the autofocus will break. Mine did three days into my beach vacation. I called sony because i have a 5 year warranty. WHAT garbage. I need to send it in and still pay 100.00 minumum. This camera is going for 200 on ebay.
3. You will lose precious moments until you realize how to use it. When you hit pause the camera goes back about 30-45 secs. When you record again YOU LOSE that time frame. I ran into Snow White and the girls ran up to get a quick hug, then paused and we found Cinderella, and again quick hug. I recorded and paused then recorded and pause throughout the day. Needless to say I lost alot. No shots with either princess. Your best bet is to record all 30 mins non stop and who does that!!
4. Battery is garbage. I had to buy a 3 hour battery to supplement the life time of the stock battery. More $$$$ spent.
If I had to do it over I would buy another camcorder. 400.00 didnt last 1 year and Im buying something else. No more cheap ones like this. Get one with a real night light! Trust me you wont regret it.
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| "Very Disappointed" | 2009-06-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A32MYVWX1AMWS5 |
After owning this product for a year and a half, after hours and hours of tech support, downloads, updates, checking manuals, troubleshooting, etc I can say that this is the Least User-Friendly and workable product so far. The device uses a "mini DVD" which may or may not play on your computer (depending on the operating system) Regardless, it will not transfer easily to your computer for further editing. I have about 20 MiniDVDs full of footage of parties, vacations, holidays, events, etc....All of which can be viewed only through the camera, or on a computer directly attached to the camera. They CANNOT be stored or transferred to a regular DVD; don;t let the salesman tell you that they can.
Tech Support has been totally useless for any of these issues; we haven't even gotten to the inferior sound or the static and noise that come through on the video.
The camera "Should" be better than it has been. Maybe I just got a bad one, but Sony has yet to make good on any aspect of it. I am left with a basically worthless product that falls way short of the reasons for which I selected it. |
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| "Only if you DON'T want to record important things." | 2009-05-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3BZ44B2OXECXY |
Have used this camera about 6 times over the past year and half. Just recorded a full day of footage of my children in various places with them saying things to our mothers. Were going to make a Mother's Day video. Had 2 discs full of video.
Had been recording and playing back on the first disc for a whild. Near the end of the first disc, got a yellow icon with a line through it. I thought this meant we were almost out of space, so I swappped to a new disc and recorded more.
Now ALL the footage is gone from the first disc. It says movie recording disabled, the icon is back, etc. It was all their before but is gone now. It's 9pm and my husband wants to edit the video but we lost the majority of the footage.
Did a google search and found many other complaints of the same things happening.
Went to Sony's support site and the instructions were to try a new disc. Can you believe that? |
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| ""Recording Disabled" problems after 1 year" | 2009-03-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1W61JZYR0WMZF |
We bought this camera in 12/2007 and it worked flawlessly for exactly one year. Then in the middle of recording one of my son's basketball games, a yellow DVD with a line through it begins flashing in the middle of the screen. I pressed the record button again and the camera displayed "Recording Disabled".
We mailed the camera to Sony. They told us they could not find anything wrong. They never told us what tests they ran. We got the camera back and it immediately had the same problem. I asked if Sony could recover the video on the disabled disks and they said "yes, for $50 a DVD". I almost laughed out loud. The rep also suggested searching for software on line to fix corrupted disks but I haven't found anything I would trust purchasing. We mailed it back a second time (this time with a bad DVD). Again they said they could find nothing wrong and said I should use Sony DVDs. We had successfully used about a dozen Maxell DVD-RWs and now all of a sudden that's the problem? The camera was mailed back and again after nearly completing 1 DVD, the video function was disabled.
From what I've researched since I would not buy a DVD recorder. Although I wanted to move away from tape, I've read miniDV and Flash Memory camcorders are much more reliable. No matter which type we decide to purchase, it will NOT be a Sony. |
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 "Great for the money!" | 2009-01-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: AJ7AUYER5NUFR |
| This is very user friendly. This is my first camcorder and it is awsome! With the prices of all the recent technology, this is worth the money for what it's for. |
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 "Sony DCR-DVD 108" | 2008-09-17 |
| - Reviewed By sma_usa |
| This is an easy to use little camera with a great zoom. The color and definition is far better than I thought, in well lit areas. In lower lighting the color is flat, the picture is darker than the surroundings and not real clear. For outside, daytime, or well lit rooms, it is perfect. |
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