Sony has announced that as of February 2025, it’s no longer going to manufacture four types of recordable media: Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV ...

Though it’s not a pocketable as the DCR-PC350 we talked about a couple weeks ago, Sony has released another videocamera with similar specs (the 3.31-megapixel CCD is the big seller here, so it ...

The ‘pro’ DV formats, which were not compatible with each other, offered little difference in terms of picture quality, but were more robust (wider track pitch and faster tape speed) and, in principle ...

“This camcorder was our first significant compact unit with still capture capability in our entry-level MiniDV offerings,” said Linda Vuolo, director of camcorder products, Sony. The unit snapped ...

Sony's camcorder lineup might be very DVD- and hard-drive-heavy this year, but budget-minded tape lovers are still getting some love. The company just announced two new miniDV camcorders, offering ...

The Sony DCR-HC96 Handycam is a MiniDV camcorder that performs well and provides impressive still-image quality. Nice features like a touch-screen LCD and an accessory shoe make it more attractive.

An entry for "Sony DV-VCR" appeared in the program's list of connected cameras; I selected it, and a set of onscreen buttons let me remote-control playback on the camera.

Sony updates MiniDV Handycam line. By Dennis Sellers. FEB 11, 2001 4:00 pm PST. ... MPEG Movie mode allows the capture of up to 60 seconds of video and audio in the Video E-mail mode ...

First, I had a VHS camcorder, then an S-VHS camcorder and in the early nineties I did a lot of recording on the Hi-8 format. After that I went digital with DV tapes. All of those were messages, right?

The new Sony DCR-PC105 Mini DV Handycam weighs 16 ounces, uses a one-megapixel imager with 520 lines of horizontal resolution. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ... With the USB streaming ...

All of the formats Sony killed have been around for decades, with BD-RE arriving 2002, MiniDisc in 1992, MD Data in 1993 and MiniDV cassettes, primarily used for video production, first appearing ...