Right. The DCR-PC100 is one of the cigarette sized box ones. It's the
latest U.S. model. It appears in the latest Sony Style (the one with
Milla Jovovich) on the front cover on page 91
Besides a photo of the camcorder itself with i's two and a half inch
swivel screen open, a brief synopsis spells out a few highlights:
Digital Video Recording
First Mega Pixel CCD DV Camcorder (1/4"-1070k Pixels) (We have since
learned here thanks to Graham Baker, in reality it uses only 680k for
Video, the extra pixels are for still shots only which is a shame since
the TRV900 has 1,140,000 total pixels, if 1,070,000 pixels on this
camera were actually used for Video, quality would be very, very close
to the TRV900. But they're not.)
520 Lines Of Horizontal Video Resolution (Don't know how this can be
true in relation to the above. While Sony isn't exactly engaging in
misleading advertising, they are certainly embellishing the truth. I
think most people who buy this camera will never know they're getting
only 680k pixels for Video, not the 1070k claimed by Sony.)
Memory Mode With Memory Stick Digital Storage Media
High Quality Mega Pixel 1152 x 864 Still Image Resolution (this is where
the 1070k pixels are used)
Advanced 'HAD' CCD Technology (Sounds very impressive, right? A quick
glance at Sony's still digital cameras reveal they use this technology.
Of course, if you didn't invesigate throughly (in this case you would
have to do much more than just ask a salesperson) you would believe this
applies to Video, because that is what is clearly implied, rather than
still images only.
It would be nice if Sony could make their digital still cameras capable
of shooting and storing not just MPEG video, but MPEG2 video and you
could really be off and running with a high quality camcorder. And it
would be a real reason for people to move into adapting Sony's Memory
Stick tecnology if real time MPEG2 video could be stored on them,
transferred and edited into film any way the user desired.
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