JVC Everio GZ-MS210SEK

A review of our prize win - If it broke I wouldn't repurchas ... (325 words)
by babyboomer - written on 17/10/10 (Very useful, 770 readings)
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work it out myself. I did it in the end but there are certain features I still have no clue how to use. I have never had anything made by JVC before and wonder if the instructions are the same for all their products - overly complicated. Once you get started its pretty much point and shoot (and zoom if you want). There is a screen to see what your videoing and for quick playback. This is pretty good quality and large enough to see what s happening. When you playback on TV the sound quality isn t quite as good as I expected but then I suppose it isn t a particularly expensive piece of kit. The battery seems to last quite a while on this although I haven t had another ...

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 ...