No IEEE 1394 Firewire Link on a new line of Sony Digital Camcorders when all the Mini DV and Digital 8 Camcorders have them. Which makes this $ 2300 camcorder as far as I know completely useless for copying or transferring digital full motion video, only digital stills and only with an ethernet adapter. Big deal. I can do that almost as easily with my TRV900 or any other DIGITAL TAPE based camcorder. Whose bright idea was this, Sony? Could this be another problem related to the SCMS system, since the camcorder also records MD2 audio? How much of this do we have to take? What is the point of this camcorder? I can live with 10 minutes of MPEG2 quality video per disc, but I cannot live with no way to transfer the edited discs together and make complete movies or even master movies already shot in the MD Discam for presentation elsewhere. No one with any professional or semi-professional use for this camcorder will touch it, because it just doesn't make sense unless you want to send digital stills wirelessly, and this camera will soon not be the only one with this capacity. What about it, Sony? Why no IEEE 1394 link? This is as big a blunder (or bigger) than the eight thousand dollar 61 inch 16:9 HDTV made by ProScan, Hitachi, and RCA that includes a built in HDTV decoder and satellite receiver but NO component inputs (NOT ONE) for a progressive scan DVD player, HDTV VCR or any other future device relying on component input for best quality audio and video. $ 2300 for a MiniDisc Camcorder and apparently all you get is a crappy composite video output. Are you listening, Sony? I'm bitching pretty loud-and for damn good reason. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
