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34 of 35 customers found the following review helpful:
 Good product, bad recording format, 2006-01-08
The image quality, small form-factor, small size, large hard drive, and battery life make this a winner. However, the .mod files are a pain in the butt. The only thing that you can view these with is the PowerDVD viewer. In order to convert these files to AVI or MPEG I had to by something called Power Producer, and let the computer work for an hour to convert a large file to MPEG. That's just wrong. The camara should have an option to compress to MPEG. This is similar to what the early Kodak digital camaras, such as the DC-120, did in saving images to the proprietary .kdc format. A royal pain.
Hopefully generation 2 will have MPEG conversion built in.
Anyhow, better and easier than converting from tape. A buy if you need a camcorder now.
20 of 54 customers found the following review helpful:
 Response to previous question, 2005-11-25
In regards to whether or not you should keep your old camera, that's up to you. Really, most people are turning their video into digital anyways, so it's really not a question anymore. This just facilitates that process. However, keep in mind one thing: digital items fail. Then again, so does analogue. But now instead of having 7 tapes and only 1 failing, you have 7 hours in one spot. Personally, I'd rather this than the old tapes.
Also note, this is the first release of a HDD based video camera. Either A, the price will come down and you'll kick yourself in the butt, or they'll keep coming out with better versions quickly for a while. But this is mostly based off the iPod frenzy. It's just a standard JVC camcorder made to store the information on a different format.
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