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Need help today on camcorder

Oct 27, 2010 12:34AM PDT

Hello everyone. I know NOTHING about camcorders. I usually research every purchase I make, especially with electronics, but as a new mom I feel exhausted trying to do this. So I went to Best Buy and went with the Sony CX110. It was a decent price and HD with (apparently) some internal memory and semed perfect for what I wanted.. The reviews online seemed decent (I checked at Best Buy). I was told it had 8gb of internal memory by the rep helping us and that I would need a memory card also so we bought an 8 gb memory card. I get home and there is no internal memory. So I start researching (sigh) and as usual I am overwhelmed. I am willing to pay the extra $100 and get the Sony XR150 which is 120 gb internal memory and allows for memory card but some reviews are saying to steer clear of internal memory camcorders. So here I am - what advice can you please (please!!) give me?

I am using this for family moments of our baby/vacations/etc. I do not plan on getting fancy and editing but would like enough memory for vacations and HD as I have a 50" HDTV and want to view good quality videos. Thanks in advance!

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some more info
Oct 27, 2010 1:15AM PDT

I also want to be able to make DVD's of the video for future use.

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Help today
Oct 27, 2010 5:47AM PDT

I did a quick check on the XR 150 and yes it has a 120 GB HDD with all of the fragility that comes with that approach. You might want to check the Canon offerings. The FS 31 has 16 GB of flash memory [no moving parts] and seems to be in your price range.