I owned a GY-HD100 a few years ago and wasn't keen on a few things: the color wasn't very accurate (especially the default settings), the 'line' that would sometimes appear center screen, and occasional dead pixels (which you could fix in the menu). These were all known issues with the 100 and talked about quite a bit on these forums. Did the GY-HD200 rectify these issues?

Yes ,
Problem fixed, use ,Paolo's true colour 3 matrix to reign colours in, I pulled back the red a bit more as it over saturates . Dead pixels same issue fixed in 24p mode. I had my ccd block replaced as I lost 12 of them and couldn't remap

Adam.

Slightly off-topic. Do you still have your JVC GY-HD cam with a working firewire port? There is another Perth owner but he is not back from Canada inside of about 18 months? Am looking to capture some WW2 precious oral histories originated on a GY-HD111 before the tapes curl up at the edges and become unreadable. This for another individual whose tapes are here but he is in Thailand.

I pulled back the red a bit more as it over saturates

I looks like this is typical JVC as I noticed the gy-ls300 also over saturates red.

Several 790's at my station suffer the split screen effect. I complained so much (I shoot night at high gain!) that a JVC tech was sent to the station to resolve the issue. He explained the series has DUAL DSP's, one for each side of the screen, because back when they designed their HD cameras, a single DSP chip would have overheated from the massive 720p processing. Long story short, he hooked up a piece of proprietary tech equipment to an internal board, and had to adjust each DSP until they "matched". Apparently, these are the only cameras that you have to match to them selves! :-O

Paul