Many thanks Les,

I'll see if I can get that side by side test up in the next few days.

Henry

It does output live via HDMI but the EVF and LCD shut down, leaving you to hook up an external monitor.

Oh wow!,...that is an AWESOME feature!

Shutting down the ability to monitor your shooting while attached to an external recorder is brilliant!!!!!!!!

I mean seriously folks,...you KNOW that Sony engineers were giggling and laughing their butts off when that code was programmed into the firmware. The engineers were prolly all having drinks that night at happy hour joking about the stupidity of that. (the Sony "PMW" group down the hall prolly demanded it.)

I mean c'mon Sony,...you guys are better than this. How do you put that feature/function on the market with a straight face?

Why not insert a text on the display that reads "HDMI connected - Screen & viewfinder disabled so as to not threaten our pro-market."

I'm actually embarrassed for Sony.

CT :-(

(I'm still a loyal Sony fan,...but stuff like this makes me question myself)

My VG10 book publisher tried very hard to reach the camcorder PR woman last spring with NO results.

I'm having no luck now.

Yet, the PR person for the PRO division responded in an hour.

I can't decide if this is a very bad employee, its something about the the Consumer group, or Sony simply isn't interested in THE VG10 or THIS VG10.

I also noticed that in some countries the VG10 is still listed as a 1080ii product.

Now if you go to the Sony Japan website, the VG10 is a really big deal! Tons of wonderful pictures. So Sony Japan is certainly pushing it.