On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 00:39:15 GMT, owki wrote:

>Will tour Las Vegas soon and thinking about getting a DV
>camcorder for that. My current choice is TRV17 or TRV30.
>Can they do a good job for the spectacular night scenes at
>Las Vegas? What other model do you suggest? What I want
>out of a DV camcorder is: 1. video quality, has to be good.
>2. size, has to be small. 3. battery life, has to be long
>camparing with other models in the market. I don't care too
>much about fancy features.
>
>I also want to know what's the difference with TRV17 and
>TRV30? Do they have a big difference in video quality? If
>all that TRV30 has that TRV17 doesn't are extra features,
>I'll go for TRV17, which is about $600 to $700 less.

I would expect the TRV17 picture to be a tad less sharp,
but with a somewhat lower level of artifacting evident;
I would also expect the sound to be a bit better with
the TRV30 using the built-in mic. The above is speculation,
based on experience with the earlier versions of these.
The TRV17 is similar to the TRV11, PC5, and PC9, with a
nice, pleasant, warm image and acceptable sound; the
PC100/PC110/TRV20, and the different TRV30 are top-end
one-chip models and kinda push the envelope for
one-chippers, giving a very sharp-looking picture but
at some cost in artifacting and ultimate low-light
reach... The sound is good in these.