With an MSRP of $669.95, the Hitachi DZ-MV550 is a DVD camcorder of remarkably low price, considering what it has to offer when it is compared to other DVD camcorders...The Hitachi DZ-MV550’s images are produces by a 1/4-inch CCD with 680K gross pixels located behind a lens with a 2.1mm-37.8mm focal distance and a filter diameter of 37mm...As far as low light goes,...

Although MiniDV is by far the most popular media used in digital camcorders, products such as Hitachi's tiny DZ-MV550A prove that there are some viable alternatives...The DZ-MV550A is very easy to handle...The DVDs used for recordings are not the typical discs used to store Hollywood movies, but are much smaller 3-inch DVD-RAMs or DVD-Rs that hold 1.4GB of data...For...

The DZMV550A's drive requires the caddy for all discs (Hitachi includes one in the box with the blank discs...The standout feature of the otherwise average Hitachi DZMV550A is the ease of in-camcorder editing afforded by the DVD-RAM format...In addition to 8cm DVD-RAM discs, the DZMV550A can also use write-once DVD-Rs, which are compatible with a wider range of players...The DZMV550A...

But for solution to the Finalizing issue; RECOMMEND STRONGLY THAT NOBODY REPEAT NOBODY FINALIZE A DVD-R ON THEIR HITACHI 550A OR 580A OR ON A PANASONIC V50 OR V70 UNTIL THE IMAGE IS TRANSFERRED TO YOUR COMPUTER HARD DISK...My advice - If you want a DVD camcorder, and you have a good computer with a DVD burner on it, and you are computer literate, and have $700 to burn, then you will be able...

There sure is a difference between the quality of DVD movies and VHS movies...My brother is Dumm OK my brother own's this video camrea, he used it a little, and cent's he does not know that much about camera's he took video tape footage of our christmas morning opening gift's...The camera has exalent video quilty and work good in low light condtions if you just rememmber to turn on Back Light correction(button...

I wanted a digital camera because it's more convenient and overall it's digital...Cheapest Good Quality Amazing clarity Costly DVD discs Works only with Maxell disks Square holder disks required If you are not a professional shooter and just want to buy the most recent in camcoder technology and still want this at the least price...I got this at 499 USD on thanks giving in circuit city, (NJ state)...