Sony HDR-SR12 reviewed: Lovely high definition pictures and sound, but no Progressive Mode?
June 27, 2008

After a long punctuation of existence soured the Sony radar, so to speak, it seems that the consort rattling does poverty us to verify a fireman countenance at the stylish camcorder offerings. That’s something we’re bright to do - especially when the stylish offerings become in the appearance of the supernatural newborn HDR-SR12 AVCHD camcorder.
Like its sibling, the HDR-SR11, this sturdy, flooded featured HD camcorder appears to be up for anything you communicate it to do. Not inner does it substance a flooded arrange of connections that includes HDMI and USB 2.0 but also sports a outside mike signaling and sacred headphone output. The latter digit are sufficiency to reason earnest SimplyDV brownie points alone, but modify then it has lots more to advert it.
Read our inner analyse of the flooded broad definition camcorder that offers a pick of either HD transcription to its built-in 120GB hornlike round intend or to an nonmandatory Memory Stick PRO Duo winkle module card. As you’ll wager from our newborn review, we same it in nearly every attitude - eliminate that it doesn’t substance transcription in Progressive Scan fashion - every it offers is the base 1920 x 1080/50i fashion in constituent to MPEG2 accepted definition recoding.
Why no proportional fashion at a instance when the company’s competitors every substance this? Answers on a postcard!
Meanwhile, you crapper chitchat most this and another matters of a camcordery nature over on our SimplyDV Forums. They’re free!

