Sony offers up hard drive upgrades in camcorder line
By Darren Murph 
posted June 13th 2007 10:51PM
posted June 13th 2007 10:51PM
While we'd already seen a couple of noticeable offerings from Sony that mysteriously touted larger than usual internal hard drives, it now seems that a bevy of Sony's Handycams are eligible for an upgrade. According to the SonyStyle website, the DCR-SR42 and DCR-SR62 can grab an "A" on the end of its title and double the HDD capacity from 30GB to 60GB for $100. The DCR-SR82 can morph into the DCR-SR82C and go from 60GB to 100GB for just a Benjamin, while the DCR-SR200 and DCR-SR300 can make the same leap in size for $200. So there you have it, nothing revolutionary, but a whole lot more capture time can be yours if you've been holding out on picking one of the smaller models up.[Via CamcorderNews]
Gimme SSD camcorders... moving parts, be gone!
I totally agree w/ you, Humpty. I have Panasonic's S100 &, while ergonomically challenging at best (zooming button is totally stupid), the size of the unit in total is great & I don't think I could ever go back to "full sized" again. I will likely keep this one till HD becomes more common.
can I upgrade the battery to match the extended space?
Buy another battery, most camcorders are designed for quick battery switching.
They're about 30 bucks.
hmm. didn't realize you could get 100GB on SSD. (checking Wikipedia I see you actually can. As of 4 months ago.) Besides, you're talking hundreds, if not thousands of dollars for that type of capacity. Two COMPLETELY different markets. You'd be spending more on the storage space than the actual camera. Probably qutie a bit more.
That's true - 8gb is the biggest (though I've not seen it yet), but I have a 1 yr old & the videos I take are around 2 minutes @ most. Home movies that are more than 2 minutes get really boring. Truly. People are pretty boring.
My 2gb on highest setting can record around 40 minutes. More than enough for us to go more than a week w/o transferring to the computer.
Call me when I can exceed 30mbps AVC. Or 100mbps MPEG2. Actually, don't call me for that.
I just wish "Upgrade" meant that they would upgrade the SR300 that I just bought last week.