Panasonic D-Snap 📹 The $1000 SD Card camcorder from 2003!

Videotape was still king when Panasonic introduced the first video camera that recorded DVD-quality video onto SD cards in 2003, the D-Snap SV-AV100. Unfortunately, it was too far ahead of its time, and nothing else would match its small size, high quality, and wide array of features for years to come.
*UPDATE:* There was a firmware update for the SV-AV100 to allow use of non-Panasonic SD cards (as well as an entire user forum dedicated to it!), but unfortunately the Internet Archive did not archive the file downloads: web.archive.org/web/200605110...
And Panasonic's Pro High Speed and Super High Speed SD cards do work with the SV-AV100: av.jpn.support.panasonic.com/...
The remainder of this video was recorded on a Sony DCR-SX41 Handycam from 2009, and I think the Panasonic D-Snap actually has better video quality, and equally good audio quality, despite being six years older.
#retro #sd #camcorder

[@squeak_exe]

The trike in the video is a Can-Am Spyder RT. Its the touring model of that range. Hope this helps! 😊

[@Zeebee1971]

It looks like a version produced in 2015.

[@_lun4r_]

And a useless pin lol 😡😡

[@steviebboy69]

I remember a smaller bike and I am sure it had MP3 in the name, but one time I saw an older guy, with one arm riding a modified trike. It was not the normal motorbike brand but after some kind of Aircraft, it had car size and profile tyres on the front of it and he said you drove it on a car license. This is in Australia by the way.

[@maximusmax4557]

@@steviebboy69Sounds like a Morgan.

[@steviebboy69]

@@maximusmax4557 Actually I remembered the brand it was Bombardier Recreational Products. Either way it was a nice machine. at least you can sit on it and not worry about it falling over.

[@JonGallon]

At the time, any camcorder with an SD slot would only write photos in the SD card. This Panasonic is pretty avant garde even by 2003 standards. I bet most people just thought it was just another expensive minidv camera at the time.

[@lolman123401]

I have a mini DVD Panasonic and yeah, the SD card is pretty much useless. IIRC it does do video on it but if it does it's total garbage quality

[@Pasi123]

I have a 2004 Sony DCR-TRV460 Digital8 camcorder that can record 240p 15fps(?) low bitrate MPEG video with 32kb/s mono audio to a Sony Memory Stick. It's WAY worse than the 576i DV it records to the tape but I guess it would have been fine for an online video back in the day. It's still better than the 144p my Nokia 3110 Classic feature phone recorded in the late 00s and early 2010s :D I also have a 2006/2007 Sony DCR-HC96 MiniDV camcorder which can also record to a Memory Stick but it's just as bad as on the TRV460. My parents bought the camcorder in 2007 and I think the first time anyone used the feature was this year when I compared it to the TRV460. Though the HC96 can take decent 3MP stills

[@namesurname4666]

@@Pasi123 the nokia probably recorded 3gp from 320x240 to 128x96 with horrible AMR mono audio (phone call quality), best way to record alien footage

[@Pasi123]

@@namesurname4666 176x144 15fps 128kb/s 3gp and AMR mono 8kHz 13bit 12.8kb/s audio

[@ConsumerDV]

@@Pasi123 The HC96 can record in progressive mode, an advanced feature in those times. You can upscale it to 720p and no one will know it is just DV.

[@novelezra]

Me: Holy crap, the sharpness is kind or eerie; to see a camera this early that still uses 4:3 but with such clarity is ama-OH MY GOD YOUR CAT IS BEAUTIFUL

[@tituslafrombois1164]

That's hilarious I read that part of the comment just as the cat came on screen

[@slender1357]

@@tituslafrombois1164 me too 😂

[@nukley]

I feel like 480p is looked upon as really crappy looking, but that's usually because most videos you see with that resolution are from consumer level cameras, and possibly edited in something which could further degrade the quality depending on the video editor and settings.

[@Nantawat_Kittiwarakul]

It's like Panasonic was actually just testing their conceptual idea, and they nailed it in most aspect. Then they waited a few more years until the technology had matured enough to make flash-memory camcorder practical to start mass produce it. So they might didn't even expect any commercial success in the first place.

[@marsilies]

They did follow this up with a few more D-snap devices, like the SV-AV30 and SV-AV50. They look to have switched to only MPEG-4 recording though, maximum resolution 320x240, so they seem more targeted towards casual use than a replacement for higher-quality tape or mini-DVD camcorders.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

yup. The R&D costs were definitely well spent since they had the technology well coined and ready for mass production when it could be done more affordably.

[@BillAnt]

While the flash-card system was a great idea with no moving parts, it were ahead of its times, the memory was very expensive especially in higher capacities. Fast forward almost 20 years and most newer smartphone sadly did away with the sdcard slot. While iPhones never had it, most Androids did including Samsung's up till the Galaxy S20 series. Some say that cloud storage has replaced it, but I don't like MY stuff out there in any "cloud".

[@hordeofzombine]

Thank you for covering this! I had the SV-AV30 in highschool and I loved that little thing. It had a smaller/cheaper camera with no stabilization but still felt like a device sent from the future. Almost no one had camera phones yet, let alone anything that could record or even play video in their pocket. It was also a decent MP3 player and stayed in my pocket until smartphones were available.

[@nslouka90]

Panasonic has never disappointed me, I had one of their digital camcorders and was blown away with the quality despite the low price.

[@vwestlife]

*UPDATE:* There was a firmware update for the SV-AV100 to allow use of non-Panasonic SD cards (as well as an entire user forum dedicated to it!), but unfortunately the Internet Archive did not archive the file downloads: web.archive.org/web/20060511002941/zyvid.com/smf/index.php?topic=7.0 And Panasonic's Pro High Speed and Super High Speed SD cards do work with the SV-AV100: av.jpn.support.panasonic.com/support/global/cs/d_snap/connect/av100.html

[@DJDanceClassic]

lol, I just wanted to post this, I own the camcorder as well since 2003, still have it. When you installed the firmware it did a check and you had to wait like 10-15 seconds with that other card before you could record!

[@vwestlife]

@@DJDanceClassic If you still have a copy of the firmware, I'd greatly appreciate it! All links to it are unfortunately long gone.

[@prebenjaeger]

@@DJDanceClassic What are you waiting for? Give the man the firmware.

[@DJDanceClassic]

I am sorry, i dont have the firmware. The reason that it slowed the camera down (the waiting time) waa the reason I never installed it. I was a very active member in those days on the av100 forum. One day it just disappeared sadly!

[@vwestlife]

@@DJDanceClassic Yes, I heard about how the updated firmware tests the speed of the SD card every time you turn it on. I don't need the update because the 1 GB card I have has adequate recording time, although the possibility of using the update to turn it into a PAL format camcorder intrigues me. Not sure if I want to risk bricking it to do that, though!

[@artemorbid]

Wow, they were ahead of the game. Always enjoyed Panasonic products.

[@jamesslick4790]

You could say that they were “Just slightly ahead of our time.” 👍😊👍

[@artemorbid]

@@jamesslick4790 absolutely

[@Markimark151]

That camcorder was slightly ahead of its time, especially recording directly to SD and not those bulky tapes. Even computers in 2003 had USB standard, the price of the camera was why it wasn’t popular, and just bought by early adopters of flash based camcorders.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

The cost of the cards is bound to have been a huge part of the reason. Otherwise the cost wouldn't have been too far out of line with MiniDV cameras.

[@Markimark151]

@@DoubleMonoLR especially when SD cards were so expensive back then.

[@BilisNegra]

Really neat piece of equipment. A few years later there came a slew of dubious quality SD camcorders in a similar form factor, many of them downright chinesium generic stuff sold under whatever dodgy brand, that distorts our appreciation of what such type of camera could be. This pioneering Panasonic, however, really stands out.

[@Cory_]

What an awesome little camera. The way it doubles as a capture card is really cool.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

Indeed, if modern SD cards were compatible, it would be ideal for converting standard definition analog videos to digital, without needing anything else.

[@allenmovies]

I miss camcorders with this form factor! Imagine a small 4K 60P camcorder of this style with a 10x optical zoom

[@mahboi9057]

This'll be sooo cool

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

Aaaah glorious that you demonstrated it’s line recording feature using the legendary Sega Mega Drive ! You can almost make out the individual CRAM dots!

[@vwestlife]

*its

[@jamesslick4790]

That's a pretty damn impressive camera, I was astonished at the stabilization. I had a DVD camcorder whose "IS" was nowhere near that good, despite being much larger. Hell, It's pretty good even now! I'd use it today for when I need Standard Def video. (I still use Standard Def when I need new video to fit in with exiting Standard Def video footage.)

[@GoldSrc_]

I love that rock solid CCD global shutter footage.

[@kmusicmagazine]

These videos put you straight back in the early 2000s. Like a filter effect.

[@MacXpert74]

Right, it looks just like the footage I shot with my Panasonic DV camera, when we went on vacation in the US back in 2006. 🙂

[@callumbush1]

Not bad for a nearly 20 year old camera!

[@EgoShredder]

I use MPEG-VCR editing software for MPEG-2, and I first used it back in around 2004. I wanted something that was as fast and reliable as Virtual Dub is for AVI, and this was the only thing I could find that matched it. Most other MPEG-2 editors at the time tended to throw video and audio out of sync, after making cuts to the footage or joining two files together. MPEG-VCR handled everything like a champ though.

[@vwestlife]

My favorite is VideoReDo Plus, which can losslessly cut and join MPEG2 video files.

[@juniorbcm5375]

Womble MPEG Video Wizard does that too, without recompressing the files.

[@S.0.K.]

4:35 Cool Cat.

[@Skawo]

They used the SD logo and call it an SD card even if their hi-speed format was proprietary? I mean, I know Panasonic was one of the companies behind SD cards, but it still seems questionable.

[@marsilies]

I think it was primarily the way the card reported to the device its speed that was proprietary. the SD Association didn't start using speed classes at least until 2006, when they introduced their own 'High Speed" spec.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

Presumably it still conformed with SD specifications, just enabled higher speed in compatible devices.

[@TonyWangDesign]

4:3 ratio video looks more comfortable to my eyes. I love it!

[@MacPhantom]

Not surprised. It's a Panasonic, and therefore likely to be awesome.

[@brick6347]

$1000... yikes. Maybe my own nostalgic hell because I was a broke graduate student in 2003 and I could barely afford a pack of ramen! Something I find fascinating is how making and editing video has gone from a highly skilled job with expensive equipment a generation ago, to something teenagers do with a cheapo smartphone with their hands behind tied their back. I suppose word processing was the same. It was a slug to get a book made in 1950, now anyone can write their lunatic manifesto on $200 laptop and self publish it. What a time to be alive!

[@dintyshideaway9505]

So I guess Panasonic really was "Slightly ahead of our time."

[@ralphreinhardt6020]

Panasonic just slightly ahead of our time .

[@velvetpilot2008]

It doesn't seem to matter how long I'm away cause every time I come back to a VWestlife video, it feels like home. Just like with Techmoan's videos, it's a testament to how reliable and solid your videos are. You always do such a great job making informative yet entertaining videos.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Back in 2003 i only saw these at the IFA (the consumer electronics expo that used to be held here in Berlin once every 2 years and since 2003 or so it was every year) and i still used VHS-C tapes. Though VHS-C tapes were more expensive over here and cost 7-12 Euros, depending length, brand and where you got them from. What i loved the most about these solid state camcorders where the compact size and better battery life but sadly the long battery life was cut short again by the small battery size. I have a Sanyo Xacti VPC HD2000 from 2006, when H264 HD video recording just started to become a thing and this thing could definitely run longer if the battery would be larger. Never the less, i have a really soft spot for these early solid state videocameras that used the SD card as medium.

[@GeekTherapyRadio]

I'm listening in my studio through a pair of Adam Audio monitors...and the SEGA stereo is glorious. First time I've ever noticed that each collected ring alternates between left and right, hard panned. Amazing.

[@birdysama2980]

I have a Sega Genesis model 1 at home. Recently, everyone was sleeping, it was late at night, but I still wanted to play, so I plugged some headphones into the Genesis and wow! I truly wasn't expecting it to have such a good stereo.

[@SaintMecha]

I'm impressed by the IQ, that day time footage is really sharp. Panasonic used to kickass in the past.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

They're still good. They're still selling basically the same 10 year cheap, little HD camcorder as I have. 42x optical zoom, OIS, + all the usual features. Easily fits in my pocket. Of course they also have flashier models, including 4k, now.

[@ct1660]

I wish i knew about this camera YEARS ago when my parents bought their first camcorder. Would have been amazing to have for its time!

[@TheGamerHillbilly]

That image quality is a throwback

[@seppolaitela8590]

its super good for that time!

[@goingindieEN]

Seeing this device in action is such a throwback in time.

[@twocvbloke]

Pretty cool that Panasonic was ahead of the game with SD card recording, just a shame they were a bit too early, but hey, they kept on it at least and SD became the norm for domestic camcorders... :) As for the trike, haven't a clue, but damn that's a cool looking machine, hoping to slowly build a reverse-trike akin to that myself over time, cos why not... :D

[@secretagentjesus4406]

That would have been "the bomb" back then. I went with Digital 8 for cost but I always hated the motor buzz picked up by the mic.

[@tynickel8174]

Love mine I have the original , dug it out for my youngest to use !

[@AussieTVMusic]

$1500 in today's money. Not bad for the features you got.

[@OvidioJOrtiz]

The quality of the video takes me back to the early days of KZbin. Pure nostalgia

[@Zetaretiiculi]

That's amazing for 2003 standards.

[@theone3776]

🎶"Don't call me on the phone To tell me you're alone"🎶

[@NALTOdeluxe]

So wait, you can legit record composite output on this thing? Man I would kill to have a camera that can do that. Okay maybe not that far, but I’m wondering what other options I may have for features like this.

[@pokepress]

A fair number of standard definition digital camcorders from that era could do that. I think the intended purpose was to allow folks to digitize old VHS home movies.

[@marsilies]

I digitized some stuff a few years back by running analog input to a Mini-DV camcorder, then piping the Firewire feed to a PC for capture, no need to record to tape.

[@bakonfreek]

I've been searching for that firmware update for lord only knows how long (since 2017). I remember fixing mine only to find out that it needs Panasonic cards with the stock firmware. I also remember seeing your video on the JVC GZ-MG670 and buying that camera because it did the same composite capture that my D-Snap does, but with an 80GB hard drive instead of a Panasonic SD card (the 512MB card that came in the box in my case since I got mine basically BNIB in 2017).

[@vwestlife]

Thanks to an archive of the SanDisk web site I've been able to find the Japanese NTSC and European PAL firmware updates, but not the U.S./Canada NTSC update for the SV-AV100.

[@bakonfreek]

Yikes, we might find Jimmy Hoffa before the US firmware turns up.

[@MrDuncl]

​@@vwestlife Is Japanese NTSC any different from US NTSC ? I guess the Japanese version might have all the menus in Japanese though.

[@onederdude]

What does the newer firmware add to the camera?

[@bakonfreek]

@onederdude So, ya wanna use a SD card that's bigger than 512MB and not a proprietary Panasonic "high speed" card?

[@iamsean92]

Another great video.

[@AMDRADEONRUBY]

Nice a new video !! I'm happy as always I watched it have a nice day

3:59 thanks, Great Sound

[@pimpinpenz]

Awesome. I was blown away by the quality. Better than my standard definition handycams

[@TheNewFlesh]

Big ups, respect 🙏

[@ElliottAlvis]

This camera is neat and super ahead of it's time!

[@Fender178]

Man that D-Snap Camcorder is on par with the Standard Def Handy Cams that like what uxwbill used.

[@_to_dream_or_not_to_dream]

This guy cracks me up.

[@Narayan_1996]

I really enjoy your videos about those old formats, they are very informative and have complete success catching my attention from the beggining to the end of every new and even older videos ^^ ♥

[@chukzombi]

just for a little context, back in the 90s you could still use Super 8 film which wasnt very good quality and it recorded just 2,5 minutes of footage before it ran out and you had to send in for not cheap developing. i had one i had a camcorder in the 90s too. it used a VHS tape which if i had a direct line i could get hours of video footage, but quality wasnt anywhere as good as this camera. so if you keep all that in mind. 10 minutes of digital quality recordings wasnt bad at all. you figure you plan what you are filming. say somebody has a birthday and you want to film them opening gifts or blowing out the candles on their birthday cake. thats maybe 5 minutes right there. if you want to record little Timmy's part in a school play. you can cover ten minutes and get a good idea what its all about. take it to film your vacation . bring a few SD cards and have a bunch of clips of the entire time. one more thing. there is nothing more boring than watching somebody else's vacation video or their bratty kid's birthday or school program. 10 minutes is a mercy. trust me thats plenty of space for what you need.

[@AbDaniel21]

very good quality for its time

[@dgpsf]

It’s actually a little heartbreaking to me how nice that camera was only for SD’s early limitations to let it down so much. If SDHC had come around just a couple years earlier, you could have got bigger and completely compatible cards 💔 With the OIS and zoom this has, I wish I could have the optics of that camera, and the sd media and format support of a $200 modern phone. 128GB SD for what, $30 these days? And at h.265 4k… it would be so amazing.

[@nickbitten9910]

Very interesting article. Digging the Sonic music as well. Bet used prices will now soar.

[@joeblow8593]

The background music in the video reminds me of another video that someone took of the Jersey Shore in 1990 with a top 40 station playing in the background. So WJRZ was playing when this lady took video of the boardwalk in Seaside Heights in May of 1990. It's called "May 1990 - Driving Over the Bridge from Toms River to Seaside Heights, And Along the Ocean"

[@emancaindec9731]

Impressive quality for 2003 camcorder! I would love to have one back in the day where I'm stuck on Hi8 tapes at that time. OIS performs decently well! Even better than my 2002 Sony Hi8 Camcorder.

[@vwestlife]

According to the schematic in the service manual, the SV-AV100 has a gyro sensor, so I think it would qualify as having optical image stabilization, even though they only advertised it as having electronic image stabilization.

[@TranscendentalAirwaves]

Daym man that's not bad at all! I wish I'd had one of these back then. lol Then again I would have taken any kind of camera, all I had was a Polaroid 600. :P

[@MrVolksbeetle]

That's rather impressive. The image quality, stability and audio are really something. Kind of a shame that the tech and made it happen was bespoke. Still, if you ain't first you're last.

[@shota1337]

a few years ago i bought one of these on ebay for $30 with the box and all accessories

[@jordantomblin2302]

Looks like a Can Am Spyder or something.

[@marcuskeen8076]

Nice Volkswagen Jetta 👍

[@j2simpso]

Not too often you see the iconic Andy Warhol designed Panasonic headphones box!

[@ronaldmalcolm5609]

Ah, I remember those early digital camcorders; I was just out of school at the time, so I didn't have $1000 to spend, but I got a camcorder from Target for about $150. It used CF cards and I edited the footage on my laptop with Windows Movie Maker (it used to be decent--you never forget your first NLE), which was wild also. The problem with those early cameras wasn't the sharpness, it was the weird artifacts from camera motion and difficulty in synching a secondary sound source (which in my case was a second hand Olympus PCM recorder that I got for a steal). A few years later, I managed to VASTLY upgrade to a Canon HF-S200 and some Zoom recorders. Those early days of digital camcorders were exciting, though. Thanks for the video.

[@guyo68]

Been watching your channel for years. Love the videos. Also love the way you say "poplar" 🙂

[@MakarovFox]

lovely camera but so ahead of is time

[@hmst5420]

The image is a little blurry because of the resolution but the overall quality is super great. It perfectly adds some retro vibe to a record.

[@josephmay4937]

Aww such a pretty cat I love cats

[@vadermasktruth]

This is the most wholesome channel on YT!

[@albear972]

10:52 well, well. You have to hand it to Panasonic to really live up to its old slogan. “ *Just Slightly Ahead of our Time* “ 😁

[@Ko6i]

I just wanted to point out... What a name... "D Snap". I guess the short recording time in conjunction with the ease of transferring your recordings to a computer (for the time it was released) and sending it over the internet made the name quite fitting.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

Snap photos, snap it open/closed, makes it a snap(easy), etc. I think there were quite a few devices that incorporated 'snap' when digital imaging/video was still fairly early.

[@Ko6i]

@@DoubleMonoLR I know snap means "photo or short video", I'm much more amused by the "D" part.

[@Hchris101]

Very cool and sexy piece of technology

[@polypetalous]

Got no human grace, youre eyes without a face... (Les yeux sans visage) gotta love Billy Idol, but guaranteed thats now stuck in my head for the next 24... Thanks!

[@pomonabill220]

OUR FLAG!!!! Who is that at 6:08 ?!?! woof!

[@vwestlife]

That's kzbin.info

[@NJRoadfan]

Wandering around my neck of the woods again eh?

[@vwestlife]

Last summer. Routes 22 and 78 haven't been that green for a while lately...

[@flyingninja1234]

I didn’t know video tape from Sony got that small.

[@wgrantha4438]

4:11 that is the midlife crisis trike

[@dotdotdotr]

I have always liked Matsushita products. I felt they were underrated. Probably because they did make some cheaper stuff that people were looking for and bought. I worked on a lot of Panasonic and Technics audio equipment, and it was good quality, good as Pioneer that was my bread and butter brand.

[@AaaAaa-ly3on]

What can I say... One thousand dollars is a one thousand dollars!.. In any time periods you could get a really good quality stuff for that kind of money. ;)

[@gate7clamp]

Dude your making feel old I remember seeing that at Best Buy

[@manolokonosko2868]

Panasonic used to make some really cool and advanced, quality stuff.

[@wewuwewu]

I came across these in a pawnshop brand-new

[@MultiPBStationArchive]

Are there any other digital camcorders that have an AV Input option

[@theozank853]

It looks like the BRP Can-Am Spyder RT Limited or Spyder RT Sea-To-Sky.

[@EastAngliaUK]

shame youtube was not around when the camera was out.

[@TheJourneyAhead]

At this time, I had a Sony MiniDV Camcorder. It included a 8MB Sony Memorystick for still photos. It recorded in a similar quality as shown by the two camcorders in this video. Back then, I was amazed by the good quality. Nowadays it looks very poor and dated.

[@Recordology]

Excellent show!!! Having the line in feature was HugE back in the day. Did you see my email to you from a couple weeks ago?

[@vwestlife]

About the Victrola? Yes, I saw it.

[@MrDuncl]

As Kevin points out the big problem would have been the price of the SD Cards. Remember when digital cameras used to come with something like a 16MByte card just so it could demonstrate it in the shop. In 2005 paid £100 for a 1GByte compact flash card. That was actually good value compared to the 512MByte cards.

[@big93scott]

6:07 man, look at how thin I was! That was a lot of beer ago.

[@vwestlife]

Hey, thanks for watching!

[@DanOConnorTech]

Very nice SD card camcorder. I still have my Canon SD300 Digital Elph from 2004 I think with a 2GB Kodak SD card in it. I used it for many Flickr videos (remember Flickr?) It's just a little shirt-pocket thing. I don't remember what it cost, maybe $250.

[@s8wc3]

Flickr was a great service until they imposed the garbage 1000 image limit. The size of the images doesn't matter, I don't know of a camera that can produce files large enough to hit the limit (it's like 200 gigs a file), you just can't have more than 1000 photos uploaded unless you pay. Stupid move.

[@MrDuncl]

Modern stuff :-). I paid £400 for my Canon Ixus V3 pocket size camera at the end of 2001 and £100 for a 1GByte Compact Flash card a couple of years later. The first device I had taking SD cards was a JVC camcorder, bought in 2005, but on that the SD card could only be used for stills. Recording video still needed a MiniDV tape.

[@jordantomblin2302]

Seeing old camcorder formats makes me wish my family really had invested in them. Why? Two reasons. Christmas 2002 was recorded over with WWE Smackdown. Unlabeled VHS tapes were dangerous! And the quality of DV put VHS to shame IMO.

[@marsilies]

Just label your tapes man, and break off the write protect tab for home movies.

[@jordantomblin2302]

@@marsilies This was about 15 years ago. I can blame my father on not knocking out the tab…

[@b-macjsp3550]

Wow! The quality is indeed ultimately clear! I'm not sure if its recorded in interlaced but looks almost to Progressive quality. 4:44 Those mics even picked up the cat purring. Omg... So much I really want a kitty. Still... The video capture onto the camcorder is something revolutionary from that time period! Especially in 60fps!! In 2009 I owned a Aiptek camcorder/media player, did similar composite capture but everything under 30fps...disadvantage is the audio is delayed a bit, still was a neat toy! Anyways Awesome videos!! :D

[@vwestlife]

It records interlaced 60i, and I de-interlaced it to 60p.

[@wgrantha4438]

Reminds me of that Pretec camcorder.

[@vwestlife]

Yes, but smaller and much better quality!

[@edwincancelii2917]

I love motor trikes.

[@Viczarratt]

Interesting that it has a vid-input... reminds me of the sony mavicap devices! - what do you is the maximum working SD card capacity on the D-snap? I'd like to think a 2gb card should be fine as the canon A620 from the same year works from those.

[@vwestlife]

On a now-gone user forum, people reported being able to get 4 GB cards to work by formatting them as FAT16. (The camera does not support FAT32.)

[@EmaadSidiki]

Oh yeah, been there, done that!

[@justayoutuber1906]

Oh, D SNAP!

[@ovedclali]

interesting camera for that time.

[@tribemaster101]

2:09 LOL that was quite clever

[@zangl2955]

Cant believe i got a vwestlife letsplay

[@Nobe_Oddy]

I actually had one of those Sony HDD handhelds that had a 80GB drive in it... it was SUPER expensive and stopped recording after about 3 months... but I lost the receipt so I just had to use it as $600 external drive :(

[@EgoShredder]

Ouch! Sorry to hear that.

[@marsilies]

Did you try contacting Sony support anyway? Sometimes even without a receipt, they can look up the manufacture date and see if it broke in under a year from manufacture, meaning it has to still be under warranty, no matter when it was sold. A receipt's only needed if you bought it a significant amount of time after manufacture.

[@evertonporter7887]

I'm glad I never bought one of those camcorders as I thought about what would happen if the HDD failed. However, I'd like to see a camcorder with interchangeable SSD, which would be nice.