With the affordable DC100, you get all the convenience and functionality of recording and sharing your videos with DVD technology. You also get the same Canon expertise and features found on more expensive camcorders. The DC100 delivers great video and makes it easy to capture the precious moments in your life.

Canon, one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies today made an announcement in the press that it is going to launch its new mid-level DC22 DVD camcorder. The DC-22 leads the pack of three second generation DVD (-R/-RW/-R Dual Layer) camcorders making a jump straight into the HD camcorder market.The DC-22 is a compact DVD cacmorder which include cutting edge features to provide consumers with an affordable, high-quality solution for recording. The DC-22 features a whopping 10x Optical zoom, which is Genuine 10X Canon zoom lens, 2.2 Megapixel CCD Image Sensor with RGB Primary Color Filter, Widescreen HR (high resolution) recording and large 2.7-inch Widescreen LCD. The camcorder can read all DVD-R/-RW DVD discs and can store up to 60 minutes of video and are compatible with many home DVD players, both old and new.Also with the DVD media, it has an additional layer that allows the camcorder to almost double the recording time without replacing or flipping the DVD. Verbatim's innovative VideoGard protection also helps the cause and ensures storage of quality videos for many years to come. With already a tag of "world's smallest and lightest DVD camcorders" up its sleev, the DC-22 is wort a buy. Take a glance at the extended entry for the press release.

The Sony DCR-SR80 is a new hard drive camcorder from Sony which though is a consumer product, it has all the functionality of a high quality Handycam akin to professional equipment. Since it’s a hard drive based camcorder, one doesn’t need to worry about storage material like tapes or discs. Thus Sony is offering true mobility as users wouldn’t be tied down with all the extra baggage! The camcorder also is able to capture 41 hours of video in long-play mode (3Mbps) or up to 14 hours of footage in high quality mode (9Mbps), which is not bad!The Sony DCR-SR80 is a tough cookie as it sports the HDD Smart Protection system which is a heady mix of physical shock absorbers, G-sensor™ shock protection and video stream buffering. All these features prevent in data loss when the handy cam is accidentally dropped! The handycam features the renowned Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens and the included Handycam Station lets you connect to any source like a PC or a TV. The Sony DCR-SR80 feature a wide 2.7-inch wide hybrid LCD display and also sports an active interface shoe for attaching accessories like microphones etc.

The Sanyo VPC-HD1 HD camcorder definitely turned heads when it came out, but as time went on the reviews began to take their toll. Videomaker’s Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD1 review is probably the most positive review I’ve seen so far. 

However, Videomaker’s review sees the Sanyo HD1 as a SD resolution digital camcorder first, and an HD camcorder second. They found that the color accuracy was good, but in low light the camcorder suffered. The sharpness of the picture was also not up to par with other camcorders.

They make a good point that the Sanyo HD1’s sub-$800 price range makes it a good camcorder for the money. With the next step up of HD camcorders costing around twice as much, you definitely get what you pay for.