Sony CCDTRV608 Hi8 Camcorder with 3.0" LCD, Video Light & USB Streaming
Details
- 3 inch redden LCD and black and white EVF
- NightShot infrared configuration for lowlight shooting
- Hi8 camcorder
Description
This Camcorder's Hi8M-^Y video style delivers a detailed, high-resolution picture and an easy-to-use 3" SwivelScreenM-^Y LCD. Added to, the new USB streaming function lets you connect it to a PC and broadcast live video with audio, or even put on back recorded video scenes. The 20x Optical/560x Digital zoom brings your subjects in unventilated and the NightShot 0 lux feature lets you keep shooting after the sun goes down.In a time increasingly dominated by digital, Hi8 offers a refreshingly good layout for home video. Despite the big press that MiniDV, Digital8, and the new MicroMV have been getting, many populace still prefer the tried and true Hi8. It offers the highest quality case of digital and is a good choice for everyday shooting. As long as you good want to document your family's life, and send videos to grandma, you aren't very giving anything up.
The CCD-TRV608 is Sony's flagship Hi8 camcorder, and it offers an assortment of features that choose it great for the average home videographer. Sporting a 3-inch flush LCD and 20x optical zoom, there's really no situation that the TRV608 won't shoot well. Specially when you add in the NightShot mode, which switches the camera to an infrared shooting approach, and SteadyShot image stabilization, which helps eliminate those annoying shakes that be associated with high zoom levels.
In addition to a few fader and picture effects, as well as some titling options, the CCD-TRV608 offers a second to none in harmony USB streaming mode. Essentially, you connect your camcorder to a PC via USB, and with the addition of some support software, you can stream live audio and video from the camcorder, taking stills, and playback recorded video scenes.
Customer Reviews
Low acutance and poor qualityI bought it new in 2002 for $400. The flush is pretty good. The resolution is very poor, only close shot get you satified. Other than that you get fuzz edge and barrel distortion sometimes. I didn't use it a lot for the first 3 years, only the last 2 years I adapted to it regularly to tape my daughter's piano class homework every 2 weeks for 5-8 minutes each epoch. Recently I have to knock this camera extremly hard several times to act as if the recording start (It's common issue as the piano teacher told me.). So I have to find a new camcorder now. I don't be versed what can I do if it refuses to work one day in my daughter's piano class.
loved it when it worked... get an ext. covenant on this one
I've had two of these, and both of them lasted about a year? Both of them had the same malfunction- tapes jamming in the camera. I talked to a revamp shop & they see this a lot with sonys because of the design. Using purchased movie software we were superior to make good movies in our pc & burn to dvd. Using pixela software included we could pinch still shots (good enough for listing things on ebay, etc.) which was a novelty then!
Wretched support
I've had the camcorder for a while now, and was hoping to be skilful to use the USB streaming feature to make small computer movies and send them to my friends and m overseas. Although the camcorder is good the included software is weak and the USB streaming makes a very choppy poverty-stricken quality AVI file. I recently got a new computer and could not find the device driver disk that came with the camcorder. Sony industrial support was a joke and they ended up trying to sell me a driver for my camcorder. So now I have a camcorder that I can dam up into my TV or record onto a VHS (Do people still use VHS?) but any dreams I have of putting something on my computer are fading fast. I'm prospering to have to find a new way to send my parents the video I took of my new house.
Frankly in this day and age an analogue camcorder is a sink of money.
Wink at the USB Streaming
While this is a well brought up Analog camcorder, don't expect much from the USB streaming feature. The maximum put together size over USB is 320x240, which is half the minimum recommended for creating a DVD out of a home silver screen. If you want to get the video from your tapes onto a computer or DVD, expect to purchase a separate video pinch device or card.
To make matters worse, the bundled software doesn't let you catching more than thirteen minutes of video at a time before it crashes and claims the mean is out of disk space, regardless of how much disk space you really have avaliable. This happens even when recording to NTFS volumes, which do not have the 4 gig enter size limit of Fat32.
Most third party programs will also have issues using the camcorder's USB streaming features. The drivers generate an eclectic audio device that many video capture programs can't see, so you'll have to use a disband audio cable unless you like the idea of not having any look. Roxio's products are among the many that can't use the audio driver.
In short, it's a decent camcorder, assuming you parallel it to other devices as though the USB streaming feature didn't exist, because for all practical purposes, it doesn't.
Exalted camera, but missing important feature
This is a eminent camera. We use it a lot. I love the night shot, the steady shot works huge and it has a lot of other nice features. Everything on it works great all the time. The light metering and coupй focus work very well too.
There is only one problem that really frustrates me. It has a right and a port side microphone and records in stereo, but there is no way to get stereo playback through the analog A/V achieve. That's certainly one of the cheapest things I've seen in products that I've bought. It's very disapointing from a name like Sony.
