Strengths: small, not so expensive, HDD 7 hours video in SP

Weaknesses: DIS doesn't help much - have to use tripod, compression brings artifacts for any motions, AF depends on light conditions, built in Lamp doesn't help at all. Long start up time. Battery dries in a hour

Summary: Overall it's a good camera that uses HDD, where you have plenty of space, but battery put limit on it.Even it can run for more then hour on included battery in real life you can't make 1 hour recording as you stop / start recording from time to time, but have to keep camera on it would result in 30 min total recording time. So, make sure you have charger with you all the time or extra battery.Now, about DIS - it helps, but not much. You have to use tripod if you want to get good video.1 mp camera image is very bad, after I took two shots I stopped using it, even my cell phone does it with better quality - so don't count on it.I don't know why I don't have many colors as I liked, could be due to run time compression to mpeg2! Again what do you expect from $500 camera. But, that's $500 anyway - so I'd like to get better video quality at this price.I hope you'll get better luck with this camera.

Strengths: can record 7 to 37 hours, the manu is friendly user. everything going well. it is a good camcorder, small and light

Weaknesses: The battery comes the box only can use for 80 min, hope it can be bigger than OEM

Summary: It isn't a bad camorder, if your bedget is limit, I love Sony but it is too expensive for me, JVC camoder is small and light. I love it now.