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Sony DCR-SR100

Digital Living Sony's SR100 spurns the reliable but retro-feeling MiniDV tape format in favour of a 30GB hard drive. No more tangled tape and tedious rewinding, you think -- but is the newfangled convenience worth the drop in video quality?

28 July 2006, 12:08

Transfer your VHS tapes to DVD

Digital Living That, plus some editing software, and you're ready to roll tape -- so to speak. Your VHS tape may have several seconds of dead air at the beginning, so make a practice run before starting the capture.

8 August 2006, 16:54

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Digital Living Even better, because it was a disc, not a tape, accessing scenes was as easy as pressing a button on the remote. Well, 8-track didn't have sides -- instead each tape had four stereo programmes. Ludicrous tape-changing mechanisms were launched to...

Tags: cd rom, next generation, tape, steve

23 July 2007, 10:49

Become a camcorder pro

Digital Living You can rely on the surface at your location, or you can use plywood sheets and gaffer tape to smooth the floor the trolley is running across. Wind the microphone cable around the length of the pole and gaffer-tape the microphone to the end.

Tags: shadow, operator, dv, tape

29 June 2006, 17:02

The world's cheapest camcorder

Digital Living I looked at the camcorder in my hand and said, "Ahhh.so this thing doesn't actually have any tape inside it -- you're using some kind of ultra-cheap hard-drive or flash mechanism? Steve smiled and held up the other card and said, "When you...

17 January 2006, 11:17

Which camcorder format?

Digital Living As you've probably guessed, MiniDV tape camcorders are still the best option. Dear CNET, I'm confused by all the camcorder formats available at the moment. Should I choose a hard disk-based camcorder, a DVD camcorder or a MiniDV model?

25 May 2006, 16:15

What camcorder for filming kids in low light?

Digital Living MiniDV tape camcorders are the best option, as the consumer models of DVD or hard disk based camcorders will give you poor low-light footage. I need a camcorder to take video of my 1-year-old to send to my parents in Australia.

14 September 2006, 16:02

Camcorder or digiscope for bird photography?

Digital Living They can capture still images, but only at low resolutions, and only onto tape or DVD respectively. I notice that several budget-priced camcorders offer 30x optical magnification. Does this level give a good performance for bird photography?

1 November 2006, 14:01

Can I afford a progressive scan camcorder?

Digital Living The Panasonic PV-GS320 is a tape-based standard-definition 3CCD model, the trio of CCD sensors guaranteeing decent quality images to be shown off in all their progressive glory. I'm trying to find out about the cheapest camcorders on the market...

Tags: model, eye, fields, lines

12 December 2007, 9:23

Top five ways MP3 has changed the world

Digital Living Giving bands a platformWe're all used to being able to hear music samples at band URLs and larger sites such as MP3.com, so it's easy to forget that if someone wanted to replicate that process ten years ago, he or she would have had to convince...

17 August 2005, 15:30

Don't cut the technology cord

Digital Living Take 3m of knicker elastic, tape it to your cordless phone, and tether other end with a drawing pin. Picture it. You're in the living room. You think, "I'd quite like a gin and tonic.ice, a slice, a heavy glass.

25 March 2006, 8:00