Sony's DCR-DVD850 and DCR-DVD650 DVD Handycams: perfect for the anti-edit crowd

Regardless of your camcorder needs (well, outside of the professionals in attendance), Sony's got you covered. Today at CES, the company is introducing the DCR-DVD850 and DCR-DVD650 DVD Handycams to complement its GPS-packin' HDR line and the perfectly midrange flash-based Handycams. These buggers include Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lenses, a 60x optical zoom, 1/8-inch 680k-pixel CCD imagers and instant recording to three-inch DVDs. Thankfully, there's also the option of capturing to a Memory Stick PRO Duo card, and the DVD850 even adds 16GB of internal storage for the truly indecisive. The pair also features a 2.7-inch LCD touchpanel and Steady Shot image stabilization, and they'll run you $430 and $300 in order of mention when they ship next month.

Sony's DCR-DVD850 and DCR-DVD650 DVD Handycams: perfect for the anti-edit crowd

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 7th 2009 9:42PM]

funny how the prices for recording to DVD is coming down, i mean look what its up against. That, and thats technology for you. anyways to my real comment. These recorders anymore along with the MiniDV corders you'll see in the papers for like 200 are for like older people or people that dont have or know how to use a computer. just pop out the dvd and watch. now since HDD and flash are out i dont like these anymore, id rather edit or just store them away on HDD. maybe one day ill get one, probably by the time the 2TB SD card will be like 50 bucks. yea thats a long ways from now. as i said it sucks being poor, no it sucks were in a recession, no it sucks we had bush for two terms.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 7th 2009 11:00PM]

Queue the idiots complaining that the buttons are upside down.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2009 4:36AM]

Too aggressive, buddy?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 7th 2009 11:40PM]

Everyone needs to stop making these shitty dvd camcorders and just simplify the software they ship with the flash ones for a one click burn. I can't begin to say the number of problems I've seen people have with these things. And a 1/8" imager? Ew.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 1st 2009 8:29PM]

Fila, why add your political views to a camera forum? For the record, Bush isn't the reason you are poor, quit waiting for a hand out and get off your ass and find a job. I did.