Sony's Latest DVD Handycam Camcorder Brings Home Video To The Big Screen

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 10, 2004 -- Sony's DCR-DVD301 camcorder, with its vast 3.5-inch SwivelScreen hybrid LCD display, will record directly to 3-inch DVD-R/-RW discs, which play in most current home and PC DVD players, as well as later releases of PlayStation2 videogame consoles. The screen's hybrid technology minimizes LCD washout even in bright sunlight and can rotate up to 270-degrees for multiple viewing angles. Beyond its 3.5-inch screen, the camcorder will share most of the same features as the DCR-DVD201 DVD Handycam camcorder, such as a one-megapixel Advanced HAD CCD imager and the ability to take one-megapixel digital still images. The DCR-DVD301 model will be available in October for about ,100.