Advantages: well-priced, stunning quality, easy to carry and use Disadvantages: no mini-HDMI to HDMI cable supplied in the box
...you an idea - our Sony Vaio Pentium D 2.8GHz with 2Gb RAM and 1Gb Nvidia graphics card 'just about' manages to play back the hi-def files acceptably. There are no obvious glitches. But I cannot help feeling that a faster PC would be better. Whereas anything slower would just not cut the mustard. Although TG3E comes with software for browsing, importing and playing back files from the camcorder, for editing you will need something else, described ... ...Nero 9, PowerDVD 8, or Sony DVD Architect 5;
i) a Blu-Ray player for your TV. Panasonic's DMP-BD35 is a good bet;
j) editing software that can handle AVCHD files. The cut-down forty quid version of Sony Vegas does this well - as do a few other apps, including the reasonably-priced Movie Plus X3 from Serif. We just use Vegas Lite because we know it;
k) an external hard drive for storing all your clips. Firewire or SATA drives are best.
So, what ...
jasonford 01.01.2009 (03.01.2009)
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