DXG USA DXG-A85V HD DXG Pro Gear 1080p High-Definition Camcorder

This camera is amazing! shoots amazing videos, the audio quality (AFTER THE FIRMWARE UPGRADE THAT YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD OFF THE WEBSITE YOURSELF) IS great too! I shoot in 720p 30fps cause my hd tv is 720p and my computer which is Windows 7 the editing software edits much easier with 720p 30fps but the camera picture quality is amazing, and so is the manual focus. If any of you guys are having probs with the audio it's because you have to upgrade the firmware, and with following the directions it should take you 5 mins tops. The camcorder takes awesome pictures! you need to hold the camcorder pretty still but like since I have picture taking experience I can do that. I use 12 or 20 usually. Also the memory card has a lot to do with it too! I have a 16gb Sandisk ULTRA and its class 6 or 4. and I have to say, its amazing with the camcorder. The manual focus for movie making and pictures is very useful! it came with everything you needed and then SOME. I think this camera is amazing and it's more for people who know how to handle technology as well as figure it out a lot more easier! :) 5 stars!

Bought DXG-A85V Camcorder because it listed a lot of promising features: 1080P,SDHC cards, replaceable batteries,etc. I had a very good experience with a camcorder in same price range with the Sony Webbie 1080P filming bowling competition, but its short 1 hour+ battery life forced me to use a portable car jump start battery and dc to ac inverter as a power source. This worked well-the Sony had great video & audio, but I was looking for a simpler solution! Also a trip to Disney is coming up and I wanted to film all day which ruled out the Webbie.

The DXG-A85V to me was a "no name" that I was willing to take a gamble on for the price and cheap extra batteries (less than $10 each). I figured I'd record bowling before the Disney trip "just to be sure it worked ok". To my dismay the audio recording was so low I could bearly hear any bowling pins crashing out of the camcorder speakers. Even over my PC and TV the volume had to be cranked up to max to hear even below average bowling sounds. There are disclaimers in the owners manual and web site about its speakers being only 1 watt and its 15 feet recording distance. I think the main problem is the placement of a cell phone size microphone on the backside of the flip out LCD. I have since noticed that all the competition place their much larger microphones under the camcorder lens.

Customer Support was quick to answer my call and is located here in USA which is refreshing. However, none of that makes up for a poor Engineering design.

Just for the fun of it I tried recording at different resolutions and different sizes & manufacturers of SDHC cards, but same problem. Video flickered at high resolutions. I don't think it can write video & audio fast enough.

Consider it like a disposable camera due to other engineering limits already in it such as class 6 (how fast it writes data)with a maximum size of 16GB SDHC cards. (Class 10 32GB are now being sold).

I have since purchased a JVC which accepts a MINIMUM Class 4 speed and it accepts 32GB capacity SDHC cards.

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I am sorry to write a bad review, but this camcorder is disappointing in its 1080p video performance. It was packaged perfectly, and looks and feels like a high quality item, but the 1080p videos that it takes are just disappointing. That's why you buy a 1080p camcorder, to get good video images, right? Specifically, upon playback on my 40 inch HDTV 1080p screen, I noticed that the video images have streaks and flicker slightly, like the data off of the memory card is flawed. It was just not a stable, high quality 1080p video picture. I've taken about 100 hours of 1080p video with this camcorder, and I am sorry to say that I would not buy this one again. I do not recommend purchasing this camcorder try another brand.

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Not the most impressive video cams. Can't shoot at full, or even half res without stutter. Lowest resolution barely passes for presentable. And yes, I'm using the recommended grade card(s). Tried shooting on a number of different rated cards but it had no noticeable effect/improvement. The playback was halting, and stuttering something fierce. Sound recording is horrible too. Overall, a VERY weak product... but what did I expect for "a bargain?"

Don't waste the money. Save up for a real video camera. Wish I had.

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