Exactly what I was looking for. I wanted a camcorder for my family and this one is exactly what I wanted. Its small, easy to hold. I have a 10 month old and I love the videos that we have made. These movies will bring back great meomories for us. The only thing I would change is the battery life. just need to buy a better battery. and the movie disks only record for 30 mins well a little over that but I would want a longer time. The picture quality is amazing and well worth the money. One thing I recommend is to wait a little ...
[Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder (DCRDVD610) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/23/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (11 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Amazing at the price. There is a brief learning curve for switching modes and such, and if you're not going to read the manual you should expect that things do not exactly turn out how you expect the first time you use it.
That being said, the optics are excellent, the digital zoom is excellent (though, as cautioned in the manual, at higher zoom levels you lose picture quality), and the camera itself is very solid. About the only complaint I have with it is that if the mini-DVD you're using is not Sony-...
[Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder (DCRDVD610) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 02/23/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
98% (56 of 57) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Excellant camera for the price I bought the camera a few weeks ago for to use on a trip to Disney Land. The camera was delivered the day before the trip so there was not much time to learn how to use it.I breezed through it and was on my way. If you own a GPS and or a computer you should have no problems sorting things out. I put in a Sony disk, pushed the Easy button and during the trip took two hours of pictures that are excellant. There is a format for fireworks that I used at Epcot that came out just great. Pictures that ...
[Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder (DCRDVD610) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 02/26/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
97% (87 of 89) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Hybrid technology makes this a cut above This is in effect a hard drive/ mini DVD recorder. Unlike many others the memory stick can record video. On some/most? other company's camcorders the SD card or what not can record only photos.
Without that cability it is still a fine camcorder. The touch screen is very easy to use and easy to learn, the video quality is very good, colors come out looking fine. But the video to memory stick is very nice. We have an 8gb memory stick. It gives roughly 2 hours of high quality video. Go...
[Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder (DCRDVD610) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/24/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
96% (31 of 32) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great camcorder for beginners! I've never owned my own camcorder before, but THIS great device was TERRIFIC to start off with! My boyfriend kept saying, "I know you want a hard-drive camcorder, but this dvd one will be great for just recording small moments at the parties we go to -- It will help you get the hang of using video cameras before you move on to the higher-priced stuff."
I agree!
The camcorder comes with a "Tutorial Video Shooting" DVD that walks you through how to get the most out of you...
[Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder (DCRDVD610) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/11/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
95% (19 of 20) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Wow .. what a great camera! I can't believe how quickly I learned how to use this thing. It helped when I figured out the LCD screen was a "touch screen". Duh! The quality of the recordings is very crisp. My son's band concert was amazing. Can't believe how sharp the video is and how clear the sounds.
Only thing that took some getting used to was finding a smooth position to hold it so the pic doesn't jump. This is because the unit is small and tends to move when you reach for the zoom. I'm guessing this is co...
[Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder (DCRDVD610) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/22/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
92% (13 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great camera, but instructions lacking The camera works very well, but as one who switched from mini-VHS tape to mini-DVD, it does take some figuring out. It's hard to understand why Sony doesn't include an instructional CD-ROM with the camera to help buyers. The written instructions are not easily understood and a CD-ROM about how to take better videos is included, but this doesn't help with basic instruction on how to operate the camera.
[Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder (DCRDVD610) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/22/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
82% (14 of 17) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Not for Mac, nor anyone who wants to edit thier video I so wish I could have given this 5 stars. I recently lost my previous Sony Camcorder [Model DVD92--also mini dvd recordable] and I loved it. I never expected this 610 one to suck so hard.
In general, what's great about Sony's dvd camcorders is that they really are easy to use and take great family videos. I agree with all the reviews that praise the user friendly just pick-it-up and use it accolades. This review really has to do with what you do with that content and how IMHO the n...
[Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder (DCRDVD610) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 4.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/08/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
80% (21 of 26) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Go for a hard drive camcorder With the price of Hard Drive camcorders continuing to plummet, I would highly recommend purchasing a 30 or 40GB Hard Drive camcorder instead of a DVD camcorder and the expensive and finicky MiniDVDs.
JVC (GZ-MG330) and Panasonic both make HardDrive camcorders that are just above the price of this unit. The number one thing that sends a camcorder to service is being dropped and having a full DVD burner built in a asking for mis-alignment of the heads with any such drop or strong jol...
[Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder (DCRDVD610) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/26/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
63% (19 of 30) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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$300 Doorstop This product is NOT compatible with Macintosh computers. Don't buy it thinking there is a workaround. There is not. This should be made abundantly clear in the product posting on Amazon as well as the product literature.
I thought this was an enlightened century and didn't even consider that a company might make a product exclusively for use with Microsoft systems, especially without issuing a disclaimer.
Now I have a $300 doorstop.
[Sony DVD Handycam Camcorder (DCRDVD610) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/26/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
47% (9 of 19) Users Found This Review Helpful |