Comments about Sony Sony GV-HD700, HDV Video Walkman MiniDV VCR Player & Editor with 7" LCD Screen.:

O.K., let's capture some footage, shall we? Tape? check. Computer program ready and waiting? check. Deck that exports 720p? Uh..no. Let's look at the manual. "Your VCR can play back pictures recorded in the 720/30p format, but cannot output it from the HDV/DV (iLink) interface." (Operating guide, pg. 76) (sigh). Well, let's not use the iLink. How about we use the HDMI port? Can we do that? The manual doesn't say. Two hours later, Ryan and Zoe (the nice people at SONY) still don't know. The music is nice, though. Screw it. We're short on time. We buy HDMI cables. O.K. Deck that exports in 720p? Uh..still no. It plays it back through HDMI, but downgrades our footage to 720/480p. (that's standard def., folks) The RGB component cables might work..can we use that? (For the answer, go back and read the previous paragraph, replacing HDMI with RGB component cables. We didn't have to buy any of those, though. Yo can also use the word "provided USB cable". It was a no-go as well.) It's two days now, with no capturing, and collectively over ten hours on the phone with SONY, local retailers and my therapist..not including internet searches. [...]