The HC1000 is probaly aimed at competing with the low-end Panasonic 3CCD cams. The HC1000 appears to be identical in features to the PDX10 (sans XLR and DVCAM).

Very interesting that the HC1000 has front and rear mics which makes 5.1 easy in post as all you need to do is extact vocals and placem them center and don't forget your LFE channel.

Too bad Sony doesn't have a frame mode or progressive scan!

ha =) thats pretty nice to have 4 chan. sound.

and it records them all on the miniDV? does it say anything about the sound-quality?

if it's competing with GS120... it does not make much sense being proced at DV953 level...

I wonder if this is some kind of inbetween model, like the GS100k, that will be available only in Jap, before a major improvemant... and a world-wide release... any word if it's going to be sold outside Jap?

The HC1000 looks cool to me, perhaps even better than the GS100, IMO.

Even before you tried one, read the specs, and got some feedback? You have more faith that I. :-))

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