The camera seems fine however the bundled software is utterly useless. There is a direct copy to DVD feature which will only copy a maximum of 50 files to a single DVD, if your average clip length is 10 seconds you can write a maximum of 8 minutes 20 seconds to a DVD however large, or to put it another way 300 clips averaging 10 seconds, our holiday film, would require 6 DVDs or 28.2 GBs of DVD for 1GB of film. There is a bundled film production program which works fine up until the point when you try and burn the results to disc when you find yourself at an American website asking for $90 if you want to burn your disc. I don't know if by spending the $90 you can actually copy your film to a suitably sized DVD. JVC seem uninterested that their product doesn't do what their advertising suggests so presumably their legal department is happy that though totally misleading their advertising is legal. Do not buy unless you have the knowledge and software to process the results or are quite happy to pay substantially more money for the prielege of watching your film.
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Aug 7th, 2007
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