If you follow this forum, the number of posts about failed DVD recordings is not good. Imagine that you 'taped' something and then went to shoot more content. Someone bumps into you and due to how things work in all known DVD camcorders you lose all the content on that disk.
Many have tossed these units back and run back to MiniDV.
Bob
I ordered my DCR DVD505 on 2/2/2006. I received an email from SonyStyle that it has shipped effective 2/25/2006. Fedex still does not have the information on their web site. It does say I should have it by the 5th of March(Sonystyle Website). So far I have gotten 40 DVD -RW disks from ebay a case, a spare battery a DVD +RW and a Memeory Stick Pro Duo 256 Meg stick for the camcorder. Playing with the case the disks and the Memory stick is not a lot of fun. I will post my impressions as soon as I have the chance to play with this camcorder. Really looking forward to this coming in.

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