JVC GZ-MC100 Flash Memory Digital Camcorder with 4GB Microdrive & SD/CF Slot £270.24

Sid_Harper

Rob123 wrote:

Surely at £100 a pop, the idea must be to burn a DVD from the Microdrive data? (20p storage)

Oh without a doubt. All digital camcorders have a firewire (DVout) port so you can edit on your PC and burn off...

I've personally never taken a laptop on holiday - many travel insurance policies don't cover them and, well, what's the need?

Whatever the medium, you will typically go through the upload, edit, burn process on your PC. To my mind then, the cheaper, more durable and readily available medium wins - MiniDV tape!

Rob123

Sid_Harper wrote:

I've personally never taken a laptop on holiday - many travel insurance policies don't cover them and, well, what's the need?
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I guess I'm a little different to the norm. I go to Brazil for 4 weeks every year to visit my wife's family & use my laptop as my entertainment centre. Movies, MP3 player, synthesiser (I carry a 37 note midi keyboard), storage medium (for siphoning off photos from memory cards etc)...it can get a bit boring in a rain forest!!! My laptop goes in my hand luggage & there's not much chance of it being stolen where my wife's family live (in the sticks!), hence travel insurance not really needed.

Anyway each to there own, but it does seem like a cracking deal if you can find a manager's special for £199...it means the camera in essence is just costin about £100!!!! (ie £100 for the Microdrive alone)

Sid_Harper

Rob123 wrote:

it does seem like a cracking deal if you can find a manager's special for £199...it means the camera in essence is just costin about £100!!!! (ie £100 for the Microdrive alone)

Can't argue with it being a great deal! (though I can't twist my head round to see the camera as costing £100 as it's near-useless without the drive! )

Rob123

that's a fair point ...but I was trying to underline that's one helluva lot of technology under the hood for just a one-er!

FF99

andrewpmoore wrote:

Glad my unfortunate trip to dixons had some benefit to you! Just please tell me it wasn't the Leeds branch (where I went)

No. A long way away, in Central London and it was the last one instore I am afraid before anyone asks me where. I did give you a vote of thanks !

FF99

Sid_Harper wrote:

Oh without a doubt. All digital camcorders have a firewire (DVout) port so you can edit on your PC and burn off...

I also take a laptop so dont see this as a problem, but this model actually does not have a firewire, just a USB socket and the insturctions do warn that file tranfer using a USB 1.1 port will be very slow ....

Rob123

which branch so I can elimiante it from my visiting enquiries! (tried calling a few London branches but just getting a whole load of rel;atively disinterested foreign sales assitants which makes for a painful phone call "G-Z--M-C-1-0-0 .....no, no I said G not C")

FF99

Rob123 wrote:

which branch so I can elimiante it from my visiting enquiries! (tried calling a few London branches but just getting a whole load of rel;atively disinterested foreign sales assitants which makes for a painful phone call "G-Z--M-C-1-0-0 .....no, no I said G not C")

Holborn WC1. Curiously they had another box but no camera to go in it. Very curious but could be worth pursuing if you got an assistant with the oomph to investigate further.

Lots of numbers on the box that could be the Dixons code number. Try these to short circuit the search process:-

384520

GZ-MC100EK

GZ-MC100EKP

06060122

Rob123

Thanks.

Damn it...that's the one I was just about to visit (it's the closest one to me!!!). A small world eh?!

Well done.

FF99

Rob123 wrote:

Thanks.

Damn it...that's the one I was just about to visit (it's the closest one to me!!!). A small world eh?!

Well done.

See the edit to my message above about a piossible second camera (well box with no camera ... ).