Sony DCR-SR100

Sony's SR100 spurns the reliable but retro-feeling MiniDV tape format in favour of a 30GB hard drive that can store 440 minutes of high-quality video. No more tangled tape and tedious rewinding, you think, but it records in the compressed MPEG-2 format, which makes your video difficult to edit. Is the newfangled coolness and convenience worth the drop in video quality?

Sony DCR-SR100

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