Psychotomy

we’ve been planning (since last fall) to get a HDD camcorder when the time comes. baby being under a month away, I guess the time is here ;)

went yesterday to check out the Sony DCR-SR80 60G HDD model at Ritz … asked what others they had, and he told us they usually have teh 30G (SR60) model. But not today. (i thought he said the SR60, kiir thinks he might have been babbling on about hte SR40). the SR80 says it does 16:9 recording, inherent widescreen handy. the SR60 (40, whatever) doesn’t say anything. so he goes online.

it turns out the 40, 60 and 80 are being phased out. like RIGHT NOW. b/c the new line (42?, 62, 82) are shipping the 17th or 19th (sony said 19th, guy said 17th) … the new 30G does 16:9 (and after much searching at home i finally established the old one seems to too). and it’s expected to be identical in cost to the current 30G. likewise the new 60G will be the same as the current 60G, but better optical zoom and some other bits.

So we decided to wait, we can pick it up in two weeks instead. Either the current 60 will come down in price, or more likely we’ll just get the new 30 or 60. the 60 does like 40 hours of video, so the 30 should be like 20, which oughta be sufficient, yaknow? but we might get the 60 anyway, just to be sure when we’re on vacation. b/c the laptop drive fills up fast with my itunes TV shows :o

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