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Top Sony DCR-SR200 Camcorder Reviews
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Sony DCR-SR200 News Release Summary:
LAS VEGAS(CES Booth #14200), Jan. 7, 2007 – The escalation of
sharing user-created content on the Internet has generated
demand for camcorders that offer simplified recording and
virtually effortless video sharing.
Sony, the U.S. market leader in the hard disk drive format, is
responding to this demand with five new HDD models for its 2007
Handycam® camcorder lineup. Pre-orders for these products will
begin tomorrow at www.sonystyle.com/handycam.
“The long recording times of our hard disk drive camcorders are
designed to capture life’s unscripted times, beyond school plays
and music recitals,” said Linda Vuolo, director of marketing for
camcorder products at Sony Electronics. “Because you never know
where life will take you, using an camcorder that records to a
hard drive means you have hours of recording capacity to capture
those moments.”
The DCR-SR200 HDD camcorder, which will be available for about
$850, is equipped with a similar sensor and features both of the
above mentioned recording modes. The dual-record mode of this
model allows it to take two-megapixel still images while
recording and four-megapixel still images when shooting photos
only.
The Smooth Slow recording feature increases the record rate from
60 fields per second to 240 fps for three seconds, so you can
capture fast movements like a golf swing. The three-second video
is played back over 12 seconds for a better look at the action.
Users can also record an audio track to narrate the content of
the video.
Dual-record mode also allows high-quality still photos to be
shot while recording motion video at the same time. Sony’s
ClearVid™ CMOS Sensor makes both the Smooth Slow recording and
the dual-record mode possible.
The DCR-SR300 model can capture four-megapixel still images when
the camcorder is recording video and a six-megapixel image when
the unit in the still image mode.
Both the DCR- SR300 and DCR-SR200 models feature high-quality
audio with Dolby® Digital 5.1 channel surround sound recording
and an active interface shoe that can support an optional
ECM-HW1 Bluetooth® microphone for enhanced center channel sound.
They each have 40GB hard drives, offering about 28 hours of
video recording in long-play mode, more than 14 hours in
standard mode and about nine hours of footage in high-quality
mode.
Hard Drive, Easy to Like
Sony’s new HDD camcorders are capable of low-light video
recording with the auto slow shutter functionality, providing a
range of two-to-five-lux performance to guarantee brighter video
in dim environments. Each model has a Memory Stick® Duo media
slot to facilitate still image capture.
There is also a full line of camcorder accessories available,
including lights, lenses, microphones, InfoLithium® batteries,
chargers and cables.
Record and Protect
To protect hours of recorded video on the hard disk drive, Sony
makes its hard drive camcorders with the HDD Smart Protection
System to reduce the likelihood of data loss in the event the
camera is dropped or mishandled.
The 3G sensor detects a sudden acceleration, caused by a fall,
and instantly lifts the writer heads from the hard drive,
preventing damage from impact. If there is a drop or fall while
the camcorder is recording, the camcorder is designed to buffer
the video stream until the drive is stable and operational again
before writing the stored data to disk. Sony’s HDD Handycam
models also include physical shock absorbers to protect the hard
disk drive.
Sharing Kept Simple
All of the new HDD camcorders include a Handycam® Station that
can connect the camcorder to a personal computer, television set
or a DVDirect® DVD recorder with the supplied USB and AV cables.
The Handycam Station features a One Touch Disc Burn button to
automatically burn video to a DVD disc via a PC or without a PC
when attached to a DVDirect recorder. In either case, the
recorder can automatically detect the camcorder’s newest content
and seamlessly burn the footage to a blank DVD, eliminating the
need to cue the new recordings.
The new camcorders are also packaged with DVD authoring software
to edit video once downloaded to a PC.
All of them will be available online at sonystyle.com, as well
as at Sony Style® retail stores and authorized dealers
nationwide beginning in March.
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