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Summary: Great Camcorder and Digital Camera
Review: Nice camcorder/camera. Easy to use. Very nice features. Be carefull of the SD cards though. ...
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Summary: Good for the right price
Review: Overall this is a fairly good camcorder. It has a lot of nice features. For example, if you are far sighted, you can adjust the color viewfinder for clarity without reading glasses. I also like the fact that you can use the remote, when dubbing onto video or DVD, to briefly display the date and time the video was recorded. The side LCD is nice and large, which compared to the DV500 I think is worth the extra cost. One thing to be aware of, though, is that the Nightvision feature is absolutely worthless. This camcorder is horrible and useless in low light situations. In bright light, the images are great. I have a cheaper, Sharp VLNZ105U, that beats this JVC hands down for low light shooting. So, if I am in a night shooting situation, I take the Sharp camcorder, not the JVC. I have ordered a light to mount on the JVC camcorder, which is a significant additional amount of money over what I paid for the camcorder in the first place. Maybe that will help. When you use the Nightvision it looks like special effects, everything moves in a strobe light effect, very jerky and jumpy. I don't see why they even bothered to put this "feature" on the camera. Except for that one issue (low light shooting), so far it has been a great little camcorder.
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Summary: The Inventor JVC w/ 21st Century technology
Review: the "palm of your hand" has also mastered an amazing piece of technology here with the GR DV800U. Companies followed the lead of JVC and competition generated fantastic graphics/pixel imagery. This camcorder delivers a must in everyone's home. It picks up details you have never seen. So versatile not only is this mini-digital a camcorder it is a VCR, a Computer Cyber-Cam, a digital camera, a television, an e-mail capable device that has enough plug-in features such as s/video stereo sound 540+ lines of resolution digital still as high as 1600x1200 with a super high band processor this camcorder is thus far the most amazing one I have seen. The software and features combined will easily have you set to tape load edit and produce your own pro movies!!! This is 21st Century technology in the palm of your hand............undoubtedly underrated due to their lack of advertising. However, with such perfected leadership in the video industry there is little reason to advertise. This keeps cost low as competitors like Sony charge for their marketing costs . JVC charges you simply for the GR-DV800U technology and it is superb!!!!
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Summary: The Inventor JVC w/ 21st Century technology
Review: the "palm of your hand" has also mastered an amazing piece of technology here with the GR DV800U. Companies followed the lead of JVC and competition generated fantastic graphics/pixel imagery. This camcorder delivers a must in everyone's home. It picks up details you have never seen. So versatile not only is this mini-digital a camcorder it is a VCR, a Computer Cyber-Cam, a digital camera, a television, an e-mail capable device that has enough plug-in features such as s/video stereo sound 540+ lines of resolution digital still as high as 1600x1200 with a super high band processor this camcorder is thus far the most amazing one I have seen. The software and features combined will easily have you set to tape load edit and produce your own pro movies!!! This is 21st Century technology in the palm of your hand............undoubtedly underrated due to their lack of advertising. However, with such perfected leadership in the video industry there is little reason to advertise. This keeps cost low as competitors like Sony charge for their marketing costs . JVC charges you simply for the GR-DV800U technology and it is superb!!!!
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Summary: Great Camera...But....
Review: The JVC GR-DV800U is a lot of camera for a modest amount of money, but, as other reviewers have pointed out, it suffers in poor lighting conditions as do many other camcorders. I'm giving it two stars because 1) JVC tech support personnel are a bit numb and less than helpful; and 2) although the product is advertised as being compatible with OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 (Firewire) inputs, it will only work with Pinnacle, Belkin and Orange Micro Firewire PCI boards. Otherwise you can't transfer it to your computer. So you may have to cough up a PCI slot and another $45 to make it work. (I have an onboard Asus IEEE 1394 and a separate PCI Texas Instruments OHCI compliant board and neither would accept and install the camera connection. My wife's computer wouldn't take it, either, getting us only a big yellow question mark in Device Manager in Windows XP. JVC is a bit dishonest in its claims to be compatible with OHCI-compliant connections, but the camera's good and (best part) it has a MIC IN jack, which is the main reason I bought it.
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Summary: Good Camera but go with the gr-dv500
Review: This is an excellent camera, but not worth the price. I say this because the gr-dv500 has all the same features except the 800 has a bigger LCD screen by one inch. In my opinion its not worth $100 for 1 inch of LCD. So just go with the 500, unless you want that extra inch.
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Summary: Good for the right price
Review: When I first saw this camera and its features I was highly impressed (but looks can be desieving). I played with this camera in the store, I compared it to about 10 different camera's in the same price range, I was convienced, and I bought it. When I got it, it worked fine from the charging unit, after it was unplugged and ran off the batter it completely shut off after about 10 seconds (this is not an exageration). I thought I had charged it wrong and luckly had a second battery, once again the same issue. So I called JVC, and they told me I had to have it serviced (let me remind you people that this camera was only 2 days old out of the box) and then they told me that the camera's battery was not covered. So, even if the camera had worked and the battery was bad JVC would not cover a replacement battery. Luckly I was able to return it. But the video that I was able to capture (all indoors since i was confined to a plug) seemed to be pretty grainy and even with ample light it was still poor quality, maybe if I was able to take this camera into the sunlight I might not be as harsh. But to all those who are going to purchase a new camera....go and play with it in the store before you buy it. It will save you a lot of headache. GOOD LUCK if you own it and it breaks down, cause JVC's answer to everything is take it to the shop. And by the way, to those who do own it, JVC never responded to emails or return phone calls, I had to bombard their system in order to get in touch with someone, and finally about 2 weeks after I returned the camera there customer service department finally sent me an email stating that I needed to call. I WILL NEVER BUY A JVC PRODUCT AS LONG AS I LIVE!!!!!
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Summary: Be careful of this JVC Camera....
Review: When I first saw this camera and its features I was highly impressed (but looks can be desieving). I played with this camera in the store, I compared it to about 10 different camera's in the same price range, I was convienced, and I bought it. When I got it, it worked fine from the charging unit, after it was unplugged and ran off the batter it completely shut off after about 10 seconds (this is not an exageration). I thought I had charged it wrong and luckly had a second battery, once again the same issue. So I called JVC, and they told me I had to have it serviced (let me remind you people that this camera was only 2 days old out of the box) and then they told me that the camera's battery was not covered. So, even if the camera had worked and the battery was bad JVC would not cover a replacement battery. Luckly I was able to return it. But the video that I was able to capture (all indoors since i was confined to a plug) seemed to be pretty grainy and even with ample light it was still poor quality, maybe if I was able to take this camera into the sunlight I might not be as harsh. But to all those who are going to purchase a new camera....go and play with it in the store before you buy it. It will save you a lot of headache. GOOD LUCK if you own it and it breaks down, cause JVC's answer to everything is take it to the shop. And by the way, to those who do own it, JVC never responded to emails or return phone calls, I had to bombard their system in order to get in touch with someone, and finally about 2 weeks after I returned the camera there customer service department finally sent me an email stating that I needed to call. I WILL NEVER BUY A JVC PRODUCT AS LONG AS I LIVE!!!!!
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