JVC GR-D720

Budget Mini-DV Camcorder (863 words)
by cognition - written on 11/06/10, updated on 12/06/10 (Very useful, 384 readings)
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The JVC GR -D720 is a mini-DV camcorder in the low budget range. I got mine July 2007 (3 years ago at the time of this review), and I then paid £160 on Amazon. At the time I got the very cheapest camcorder I could find that would record true widescreen. With mini DV camcorders there are two primary ways to record widescreen. The "bad" way is that the camcorder inserts black lines on the top and bottom of the picture, and hence you use a smaller part of the CCD chip. The "good" way, is that the camera uses the entire CCD chip, squeezing it onto the available space, and when you transfer to PC the image is stretched out. This is the way this JVC camera ...