Talk:Sony camcorders

Sony Bologne
I take umbrage at the tone of this article that implies the somehow Sony created the very first miniDV camcorder and pioneered the format. That is completely untrue. The miniDV format was the result of all VHS and Video8 manufacturers coming together to form a consortium to make a uniform digital format for consumer video to prevent yet another "Beta/VHS" war. Both Apple and Microsoft were invited to participate in standard setting. Bill Gates declined, which is why the Apple firewire interface became the computer connection.

It was never Sony only. Even the DCR VX1000 was not Sony's first pro-sumer miniDV, that distinction goes to the DCR VX700. By the time the VX1000 came to market, Canon had its more famous XL1, and Panasonic was shipping 3 chip prosumer miniDV to its industrial customers. Most of the other manufacturers shunned the prosumer market because of its small size and brought a pletorea of consumer singe CCD miniDV models in 1995. After 1995 the only analog consumer cameras sold by any company were already produced warehouse inventory. Even JVC, inventor of VHS, stopped licensing new products and made VHS a free product to any manufacture (VCRs continued to be made after the miniDV introduction).

While I understand this is a Sony product page, there needs to be a tempering of the marketing hype.

BTW the reason for the special Century optics was not to commemorate the special "quality" of the Sony lenses but rather the fact that Sony decided to not use industry standard filter threads and came up with a non-standard bayonet filter mount instead. The DSR150 and DSR170 are not miniDV camcorders, they are DVCam with miniDV compatibility and can only be serviced by the industrial division. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.188.35.242 (talk) 15:49, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Merge
I created this article to merge these: Editors familiar with Sony camcorders should expand the article and synthesize information, perhaps into one section on each product line rather than each individual model. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-13 21:48Z 

Newer models needed
Please provide information for the newest Sony camcorders such as the HDR-UX5/HC5 and HDR-UX7/HC7. --Jack Zhang 19:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Possible Rename?
Is it possible to rename this page "Sony High-Definition Camcorders" and add info on the professional HVR-Z1U/HVR-A1U/HVR-V1U/HVR-HD1000U cameras? --Jack Zhang 08:58, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No, because we need to have one page with a canonical list of every sony camcorder, not just the HD ones. - Mr Forgot my password. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.101.182.254 (talk) 01:28, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Merge stub page
Can merge this stub page?: Sony DSR-570. HarmonZach (talk) 11:26, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 21:10, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Merge stub page (2)
Can merge this stub page?: Sony PMW-EX1. Todonite (talk) 06:58, 26 April 2024 (UTC)