Monday, March 1, 2010

Sony's flash-memory HD camcorders reviewed

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Senior editor Lori Grunin says, "With a six-month lag behind their hard-drive-based siblings, the HDR-XR500V and HDR-XR520V, the HDR-CX500V and CX520V promised some much-needed interface enhancements over their solid-but-flawed brothers. While I don't think the interface and control layout changes make much of an improvement, many people will probably feel the operational annoyances are worth the trade-off: the same high-quality video and performance of their hard-disk-based counterparts in more compact packages."
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March 1, 2010
Reviewed: Sony HDR-CX500V, CX520V camcorders
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Senior editor Lori Grunin says, "With a six-month lag behind their hard-drive-based siblings, the HDR-XR500V and HDR-XR520V, the HDR-CX500V and CX520V promised some much-needed interface enhancements over their solid-but-flawed brothers. While I don't think the interface and control layout changes make much of an improvement, many people will probably feel the operational annoyances are worth the trade-off: the same high-quality video and performance of their hard-disk-based counterparts in more compact packages." Read the full review

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