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New Sony Mini DV Digital Handycam camcorders

updated 12:15 pm EST, Mon February 12, 2001

 
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Sony today introduced new Mini DV Digital Handycam camcorders, the DCR-TRV17 and the DCR-TRV30, both of which offer USB connectivity, MPEG movie conversion mode for capturing short videos, and new imaging software, including MGI PhotoSuite and MGI VideoWave software to facilitate media transfers to a PC. Both offer a Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar Lens, 10X Optical/120X Precision Digital Zoom, a FireWire interface, and "NightShot" technology for capturing imags in the dark. The DCR-TRV30 also has a 1.5 mega-pixel CCD featuring up to 530 lines of horizontal resolution and the ability to capture 1360x1020 digital still images. They are will be available in April for $1,100 and $1,700, respectively.


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    USB?!

    Dear god, I hope you mean FireWire.......

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    LOL

    Ditto. Or perhaps there are both interfaces?

    On another note, Canon has revamped the ZR line with new models ranging from $799 to $999, likely to still be smaller than these Sony models, sport progressive scanning, etc.. Expect them this April, too. Man, things are really heating up. Now, where's my XL-1?? ;)

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    Re: USB?!

    "both of which offer USB connectivity"
    and two lines further:
    "a FireWire interface"

    so they seem to have both
    and depending on what version USB they implemented, it might not be good for anything else then reading the memorystick...

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    firewire & usb

    it contains Firewire for video transfers and USB for still transfers. The older TRV-20 had firewire and serial.

    You'll probably want a memory stick reader anyhow, and those are USB.

    The trv-30 does give you 1.5 Mpixel resolution though.

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    USB and FireWire

    As far as I can tell (can't actually find the new products up at Sony yet; bad link, MacNN), like previous models, the USB interface is still USB 1.1 for use with the Flash Memory reader for still shots; the FireWire (iLink) is still there for the digital video interface. That said, there's no reason at all why you can't move digital data at USB 1.1 speeds (1.2MB/sec max; yeah, right), you just can't do live editing and you'd need to wait all day for big video clips. I don't think we'll see many (if any) USB 2.0 products before Summer.

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    USB 2.0

    USB 2.0 is evil anyway. What we want is _firewire_ 2.0

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    Anything else?

    It doesn't sound like much of an upgrade from the previous models. Is there something else missing? A link to photos?

    The major difference between the 20 and 30 I guess is the 1meg vs 1.5 megpixel means the digital zoom will be a bit higher quality.

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