Sony CCD-TRV138 Hi8 Handycam Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom
Capture Hi8 quality video and Hi-Fi sound with the compact, affordable, and easy-to-use CCD-TRV138 Handycam camcorder. It features a CCD imager with 320K gross pixels that provides detail and image precision along with exceptional analog video performance. Digital Zoom Interpolation creates clearer, sharper images for extreme digital zooming.Along with a variety of features to capture quality images and sound, the CCD-TRV138 lets you customize your personal videos with such tools as Fader Effects, Picture Effects, and Titling. Choose from a variety of modes to add creative fades, pictorial exposures, and titles. Get creative and enhance your home movies with professional looking video effects.
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Sony CCD-TRV138 Hi8 Handycam Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom Reviews
it makes me sad to see them so tiny and see what litter monsters they are now. i love to watch it when she and my twins were tiny. but i love em anyhow i bought this when i had my first daughter and i used it soo much.
Wasn't stereo, sold it on ebay @ a loss :o(. Ads said hifi sound.didn't says hifi "MONO" sound until read fine print :oP. Didn't use it, can't say more.
I bought this camera solely to copy my HI-8 tapes on to my computer. The camera exceeded my expectations. Since then I have started using it for wild life video, my home, and my dogs.
Now I am sure there is a loss of quality, but it does an excellent job of video transfer. I use this for several formats of video. FAR superior to recording to VHS tape. Its like a VCR for DVD media. Yes, a totally free standing burner. Now I also use this burner to record TV shows and such. Like other reviewers, I bought this SONY after my old machine refused to play back my antique but loved tapes.
Plug it in, and go to the bathroom or what-ever. ALl you do next is get Audio and video out from the itty bitty combo plug, and then use the round rca plugs to go to the burner. I burn DVD easily in real time with a free-standing Sansung DVD burner that cost me 100 dollars. At the time I bought it at Fry's, and loved it so much I got another a few weeks later. Automatic performance once started.
Although I like to edit tapes on my computer, its a job or two sometimes. Its got a list of about 125 or so. I was shocked at all the DVD complaints I read here.
This is not really a factor in my recording needs. I have a Sony Hi8 camcorder vintage 1993 which no longer functions reliably in the playback mode, and I saw the TRV 138 as means to play my existing tapes and transfer them to DVD's. I purchased this camcorder knowing it was not digital "state of the Art". Thus it functions well and is much handier to use. I have recorded music performances and found the sound to be satisfactory It has the fold out color viewer, my old one did not, plus some additional features such as a variety of fade modes. The only negative is my old unit recorded sound in stereo, the TRV 138 does monaural. I found the TRV 138 to be half the size of my old unit and the batteries seem to last 3 times as long.
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