Sony DCR-DVD301

Pros: Size, Features, price, ease of use

Cons: Try to use Sony discs

The Bottom Line: Is a very nice camcorder especially if you are coming out of VHS-C as I did.

Review: The DCR-DVD301 Sony Camcorder is compact, light, with a large LCD, simple control functions, excellent picture quality, audio excellent (sometimes picks up back ground noise), and offers a variety of filming options, black/white, widescreen, sepia, my ...

Pros: Great color balance, and nightshot. Quick recording, and widescreen mode,

Cons: Limited disc compatibility, noise in dark areas

The Bottom Line: But it. There are few alternatives in the DVD Camcorder market, and this one is probably the best.

Review: I bought this camera half a year ago, and love the compact size and quality of the videos. It feels good to finally start recording on discs to replace those old DV tapes. It would be easy to play the movies by simply putting the DVD into the DVD player, ...

Pros: Ease of use and ability to record directly to DVD.

Cons: It doesn't have a built-in 1394 port.

Review: This camcorder is extremely easy to learn, and has many added features such as scene transitions and special effects. I took this camcorder on our trip to Hawaii and it worked wonderfully. We used the high resolution still photo settings for some of our ...

Pros: DVD format very compatible with DVD players, easy to use, small, high amount of pixels

Cons: Expensive, lack of good manual controls, lower resolution than some Hitachi and Panasonic

The Bottom Line: Unless you REALLY need a 3.5" LCD screen on a mini DVD camcorder, get the DVD-201 for the same quality, or a different brand for better quality.

Review: So I checked out the new DCR-DVD301 that Sony released to see what's with it. After a complete inspection, the only difference there is from the DVD301 to the DCR-DVD201 is one more inch on the LCD ...

Pros: None

Cons: Zoom is not good

Review: This is not worth for the price. Any other earlier sony model will perform the same functionality at much lesser ...