Several new HD camcorders were released by Sony today, capable of storing up to fifteen hours of HD video.
Hands-on impressions
| Sony HDR-SR12 |
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 One of three new camcorders Sony debuted at CES, the HDR-SR12 features full 1920 x 1080 AVCHD for recording video in true high definition, a 10-megapixel photo capture, a 3.2-inch touch panel LCD and image stabilization technology for smooth video recording. While in our fantasy world we'd like to see Sony ditch the Memory Stick format, at least built-in hard drives are slowly rendering that format more and more obsolete. Available in March for $1,400. Release: April 2008. Price: $1400.
Pros: Full 1080 HD recording and in 5.1 Dolby surround sound
Cons: Memory Stick
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Sony today introduced a slew of new HD camcorders. The HDR-SR12, HDR-SR11 and HDR-SR10 hard drive camcorders are all based on AVCHD technology and feature full 1920 by 1080 HD recording. The SR12 and SR11 camcorders mark the introduction of Sony's 5.7-megapixel ClearVid CMOS sensors, with 10.2-megapixel photo capture. They also come with 3.2-inch widescreen displays.
The 120GB SR12, 60GB SR11 and 40GB SR10 camcorders provide recording times of nearly fifteen, seven and five hours, respectively. They also feature Memory Stick PRO Duo slots for additional storage capacity.
The SR12, SR11 and SR10 will ship in March for about $1400, $1200 and $1000, respectively.
Philip Berne, Matthew Ruiz, Edward Distel and Sindre Lia contribute to the CES 2008 coverage.
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