"T-Man" <Joes@home.com> wrote in message news:Xns93EAACD26E00Ephippserolscom@199.45.49.11...

> Looking for suggestions for a digital video cam-corder at around $800.00. I

> had a JVC (probably low end) Mini DV that did NOT give me as good a quality

> as my ageing Sony TVR310. I do mostly home video but I am a youth league

> football coach so I have a need to do "cut ups" to distribute to players and

> coaches. Right now I import with AIW Pro card and use Midea Studio 6 to

> assemble and produce DVD's. The qualiy is OK to "not so OK" so I'm in the

> market to upgrade. Any suggestions are appreciated.

If low-light range is not an issue, I would look at the Sony TRV33 ($800 list?).

The picture is quite sharp (but with less motion-artifacting than is usual for

a sharp 1-CCD picture), with excellent color. The camera is also quite small,

if that is of value to you. Footage mported with a FireWire card and

MPEG2-encoded with a good encoder (Sonic's MyDVD and Ulead's Video

Studio 6, with best-quality selected), the results should look quite good...

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David Ruether

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