Typical price: £790
What is it: Single-chip hard drive-based camcorder with touch-screen interface
What we think: It's a solid hard-drive-based option, especially if you like Sony's touch-screen interfaces
What you need to know
Reviewed on: 27 July 2006
Tags: Sony, Sony Handycam DCR-SR100, video quality, sports, stabilisation
We like:
Superior image quality for a single-chip, MPEG-2 camcorder; decent still photos; hotshoe for a light or a microphone; fluid and fast focus
We don't like:
Too dependent on its touch-screen interface; small LCD
CNET UK judgement:
The Sony Handycam DCR-SR100 is a solid hard-drive-based option, especially if you like Sony's touch-screen interfaces
Full review:
Sony may not be the first manufacturer to enter the hard drive camcorder market -- that distinction goes to JVC's Everio models. But with excellent video quality and fluid operation, the Sony Handycam DCR-SR100 puts all but the more expensive JVC 500 series models -- as well as Sony's own DVD-based models -- to shame. Continue Reading...
Sony Handycam DCR-SR100 History
28 Jul 2006 in Digital Living
Sony's SR100 spurns the reliable but retro-feeling MiniDV tape format in favour of a 30GB hard drive. No more tangled tape and tedious rewinding, you think -- but is the newfangled convenience worth the drop in video quality?
23 Jan 2006 in Crave
Sony DCR SR100: hard man of camcorders
We've seen hard-disk camcorders before, but now Sony are taking the technology seriously this may mean the end of tape forever. Will we one day gaze back on MiniDV tapes in the way we look back on vinyl now?
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