Just keep on shooting! Nothing to load, nothing to eject, nothing to finalize. Everio is designed to eliminate your worries. Just keep on shooting, because the built-in large capacity hard drive easily stores hours and hours of your video inside a lightweight compact camcorder. Plus shoot thousands of digital still images. So whether you’re at home or on the go, you’ll always be ready to record or playback your memories. Smart Advantages of JVC Hard Disk Camcorders
Long-time recording Hard disk drive offers high capacity so you can record entire events like vacations without worry or fuss, over 37 hours.
No need to buy additional recording media No tape or disc is required. The Everio G Series provides an all-in-one solution, ensuring no interruption during long-time recordings, so you won’t miss a moment.
Direct access to scenes you want No need to fast forward or rewind. Just click on the thumbnail image and watch your memories come to life. Makes sifting through hours and hours of accumulated footage a breeze.
You’re always making memories. So don’t stop capturing them. The DCR-SR42 Handycam contains 30 GB of built-in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) storage for up to 20 hours of recording time (LP). A generous 2.5-inch touch-panel LCD monitor keeps all the controls at your fingertips, while 40x optical and 2000x digital zoom keep all the action up close and personal. And when it comes time to share your memories, it couldn’t be easier than with the one-touch DVD burn capability and the Memory Stick Duo media slot. The DCR-SR42 puts the simplicity back into shooting and sharing your videos. 
DCR-SR42 Highlights
1/6-inch Advanced HAD CCD imager 1/6-inch Advanced HAD (Hole Accumulation Diode) CCD with 340K effective pixels provides stunning detail and clarity for exceptional video (up to 500 lines of horizontal resolution) and still image performance.
40x optical/2000x digital zoom The optical zoom helps to bring the action close up from far away. In addition, the Digital Zoom interpolation means that extreme digital zooming is clearer, with less distortion than previous types of digital zooms.
Professional-quality Carl Zeiss Vario- Tessar lens Carl Zeiss lenses have an advanced optical multi-layer coating for increased contrast. This results in vivid image brilliance, true-to-life color saturation and perfect renditions of subtle tones.
2.5-inch touch-panel SwivelScreen LCD The 2.5-inch LCD screen provides excellent viewing clarity. The high-resolution 123K pixel LCD screen rotates up to 270 degrees for multiple viewing angles and provides sharp, detailed images for monitoring or playback.
To tech-savvy, sophisticated, and discerning videographers who demand a premium quality camcorder, the Canon’s HV20 enables the ultimate in HD video and still photo quality. The HV20 offers an unparalled combination of a 10x optical zoom, a 2.96-megapixel CMOS sensor, and a stylish design. With HD and SD recording modes, you can make the move to HD while retaining compatibility standard-definition equipment. Capturing meticulous detail and superior color reproduction, the HV20 raises the bar for HD resolution quality.
HV20 Highlights
HDV format The HV20 records true 1080 high-definition resolution video, and is capable of recording and playing back HD images using MiniDV cassette tapes.
Canon True HD CMOS sensor The HV20 features a Canon-manufactured CMOS sensor. Similar to its use in Canon’s EOS-series digital SLR cameras, CMOS reproduces high-resolution images with true HD information in movies. Canon’s CMOS sensor acquires image information at 1920 x 1080. Canon’s HD CMOS Sensor also features on-chip noise-reduction technology. The low noise technology feature means that even in dimly-lit scenes, the signals from each pixel are as pure as possible, with minimal “noise” or other aberrations.
Perfect for taking on a trip or recording long events. Extended recording for extended shooting fun. The internal 30 GB hard disk drive holds as much video data as about 22 8-centimeter DVD discs. That means you can record for around 27 hours without changing a disc, tape or anything else. This SD Card/Hard Disk camcorder is perfect for people who want to shoot for hour after hour without worrying about memory space.
SDR-H18 Highlights
High-Quality Pictures
O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer) Panasonic’s O.I.S. minimizes the hand-shake that can be such a problem with handheld shots. Because Panasonic’s system is optical, there is no image quality degradation.
Pure Color Engine The Pure Color Engine converts the CCD output signal from a complementary color signal into an RGB signal at an early stage and extracts the low-frequency luminance component from the RGB signal. This innovative engine also achieves truly superb color reproduction for high-zoomed pictures.
Built on the Pocket DV4500’s successful platform, the New Pocket DV5900 is a multi-functional DV camera designed for capturing precious moments anytime, anywhere. It’s equipped with a 5 mega-pixel resolution, MP3 Player, and lets you use up to a 1 GB SD card for more video, photos, and/or MP3’s. Video record with MPEG-4 technology to give you VHS quality videos. The Pocket DV5900 is an indispensable companion for you to create and enjoy movies, high-resolution photos, MP3 music, voice annotation, as well as online video conferencing!
6-in-1 multi-function design
Digital still camera, digital camcorder, MP3 player, PC camera, digital voice recorder, and removable hard disk
Max resolution of 5 megapixels
Equipped with 3-megapixel CMOS sensor, the still-image resolution of the Pocket DV5900 is enhanced to 5 megapixels to deliver high-quality photographs.
It can be quite bewildering when choosing a camcorder, especially with so many available in the different formats combined with the array of different model numbers and opinions from different sources. If your prime consideration is to produce short video clips for publishing on your web site then there is no need to go overboard and buy the most expensive model. A lower priced model offering the desirable features mention towards the end of this article will be perfectly adequate.
Here’s a quick overview of each of the main digital camcorder formats that you should consider for producing videos for your website. There are other formats not mentioned here but our advice is to choose from one of the following three formats.
Mini-DV
Launched by Sony in 1995, DV (or Mini-DV) is the most popular consumer digital video format. DV camcorders provide what is arguably the best quality of all of the home video formats, with all models possessing the capability to transfer video signals out to another device (such as a Windows or Apple Mac computer) via FireWire, also known as i.Link. An increasing number of DV camcorders also make it possible to copy edited recordings back to the DV tape in the camcorder using what is known as DV-in. This format offers the most choice and is the standard by which all other formats are judged. DVD
Hitachi first launched camcorders that record to 8cm DVD disks back in 2001, and several other major manufacturers soon followed suit
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Utilizing a camcorder for tape to DVD conversion is actually a very simple idea. In reality, numerous individuals think that camcorder for tape to DVD conversion to be one of the easiest and simplest functions to do these days with a camcorder.
It really is very simple to do. The first thing to do would be to connect your VCR or your older, analog videotape camcorder to your digital camcorder, and to the necessary ports with the right cables, and start up the tape while you are digital camcorder records tape to DVD.Of course you are limited to real time recording while this camcorder tape to DVD conversion happens because of the technology which is older is quite limited. You have to let the entire videotape to play, in real time. However, once the tape has been recorded onto a camcorder then at that point it is digitized and you are able to move on to the next part of the project at a much faster rate.
