Sony HandyCam DCR-SR42 Digital Camcorder Review

It looks like the world has been transformed from analog to digital overnight. From cameras to DVD players, to portable music players, it seems that many electronics devices that were once exclusively analog have been switched into digital products today. Digital camcorders are no exceptional. Though most of us have seen or used a camcorder, fewer are familiar with how they ought to be defined. By combing the syllables CAM(era) and (re)CORDER, the result is the term, "camcorder". read more...

A closer look at Sony HandyCam DCR-SR42, a true 30GB hard drive camcorder with a touch screen LCD. watch video...

Today, Sony remains one of the most trusted names in electronic equipment, which includes its line of Sony digital camcorders. Sony actually began with the name Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. Morita Akio and Ibuka Masaru founded the company in 1946, though it became known as Sony in 1958. "Sony" is a blend of a Latin word that is the root of the word "sound"; the English word "sunny"; and the term "Sonny-boys", which in Japanese refers to a nerd. An audio tape recorder that Sony put on the market in 1950, was the first significant consumer product that the company sold. read more...

One of the constraining features of modern digital camcorders was that they needed to use media that was removable which meant that digital camcorders had to be big enough to contain the media and that you also had to purchase your media and carry it about with you, and how much you were able to shoot was dependent on how much this media could store. However, in this modern age of digital media which has seen the doing away with tapes, there are many more exciting products on offer including the JVC digital camcorder. read more...