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Sony DCR-TRV350 Digital8 camcorder review & test
The DCR-TRV350 was one of Sony's most full-featured Digital8 camcorders, with a Memory Stick Pro slot, live streaming video capture from S-video/composite inputs to FireWire, analog Hi8/Video8 playback, and more -- but there's one drawback, which is why I didn't keep it (and actually made about a $40 profit on reselling it!).
August 30th, 2011 - 22:17
@vwestlife thanks
August 30th, 2011 - 22:39
@coleskateboardking12 It does support USB Streaming, but the quality is not as good as through FireWire.
August 30th, 2011 - 23:27
also can u use the usb to add videos to computer
August 30th, 2011 - 23:31
is the trv 140 anygood
August 31st, 2011 - 00:21
@Mrn951951 I am not a tech support expert. Try: videohelp . com
August 31st, 2011 - 01:12
Ok i was gonna take mine on vacation and i bought a new battery turned it on and guess what when im recording it just shows black screen can you please help me with that and reply as quickly as possibly
Thanks
August 31st, 2011 - 02:08
TIIIIIIIIMMMEEEE Passages…. How fitting. I like this song by the way xd
August 31st, 2011 - 02:51
@vwestlife The microphone on the TRV-140 is exceptional. I think it has a built in compressor because the sound never it too loud, it never maxes out
August 31st, 2011 - 03:42
@vwestlife it’s Stereo, u r wrong
August 31st, 2011 - 04:41
@vwestlife I just realized I had a different model, but it still mentioned the 140 any way. I thought I had the 140 but I think it sayd 305 or something. It doesn’t have it. Oh well. Thanks anyways man.
August 31st, 2011 - 05:20
@Overtheheight Do you mean the DCR-TRV140? Super NightShot mode is enabled by first turning the NightShot switch on, and then pushing the small button above the NightShot switch. (This button also enables Color Slow Shutter mode when the NightShot switch is off.)
August 31st, 2011 - 05:21
Hey, I have the number 140 for this version and it SAYS that there is a super nightshot, but the button is missing. Would you mind helping me? Is it somewhere else on the camera? Another setting?
Thanks.
August 31st, 2011 - 06:00
@vwestlife huh…but when I think of how much i’d be using the camera, i’d for sure have a whole room full of tapes cause I was hardcore 10 year old gamer back in ’05
August 31st, 2011 - 06:55
@bakonfreek But Sony Memory Sticks cost a lot more than video tapes. You can record Digital8 video onto standard 8mm tapes, which only cost a few bucks each.
August 31st, 2011 - 07:21
@vwestlife personally, I would still have used it, cause I was poor back then and would have to save by making low quality videos and not spending on cassetes, but that was then, and I have money now.
August 31st, 2011 - 07:42
@bakonfreek People have been capturing and editing video from digital camcorders long before YouTube existed. The first version of Apple’s iMovie was released in 1999, and I remember downloading QuickTime videos from web sites in 2000. But I didn’t get high-speed Internet until 2004, so I wasn’t able to watch any “live” streaming video back then.
August 31st, 2011 - 08:08
@vwestlife that there would have been kool awesomeness in the 2005 YouTube days.
August 31st, 2011 - 08:15
@bakonfreek Sony says it’s “up to 30 frames per second” in webcam or Memory Stick recording mode.
August 31st, 2011 - 08:36
@vwestlife and the framerate is low?
August 31st, 2011 - 09:12
@bakonfreek It’s basically webcam or cell phone camera quality. The video resolution is only 320×240 and the audio is mono.
August 31st, 2011 - 10:02
how bad is the quality on the memory stick recordint…like do you have any demo video of it?
August 31st, 2011 - 10:07
You actually sounded angry about that Fuji tape and its storage casing!
I really thought about “throwing my hat into the ring”, but I never got the opportunity to see exactly what complaints were being leveled against the camera in your video before the auction ended. I wouldn’t have cared too much about poor quality SteadyShot.
August 31st, 2011 - 11:03
I saw those cheap Fuji tapes in a store here in Germany before. Seems like Fuji was a lot into this kind of packaging, their cassettes came in cheap plastic sleeves and their VHS-C cassettes had the boxes made just out of very cheap plastic. The Hi8 tapes have been packed that way for at least 15 years. Their tapes usually are good though.
August 31st, 2011 - 11:06
@vwestlife
As I found out the crackle noise appears just occasionally. I have made other recordings that came out just fine. Weird.
August 31st, 2011 - 11:46
@oldmac6 The TRV140 is just as sensitive as the TRV103, but doesn’t boost the brightness as much. So you can still see everything the TRV103 could, it just won’t be as unnaturally bright, and it’s much less grainy. Also the TRV140 can do 16:9 widescreen mode without making the image look all pixellated, and it has much less tape motor noise. But the TRV140 is a low end model, so it doesn’t have microphone or headphone jacks and can’t play analog Hi8 tapes.