... After some research, I bought this item with accessory bundle. The item is about as advertised, although it is very small for my hand and zoom knob looks cheap and flimsy. I would have preferred less play and solid looking plastic, even. The screen looks grainy at night with lights on. (By the way, I am not really critiqueing the camcorder. I don't really know much about it, and I just upgraded after using tape camcorder that's about 15 years old.) I just thought the view screen looked grainy in such a situation compared to my canon camera. I have not yet hooked it up to the TV. Other website reviews and comparisons recommend Canon camcorder and I thought it was the best to buy.
I want to talk about the bundle items and service, which, ended well and me feeling pretty good about the buy. The main 2 items in the bundle (bundle costs about $40 extra) are 8GB sd card and extra battery. The included SDHC card is, however, class 2 card. Other websites recommended class 6. I believe the numbers mean something about recording or replay speed. I recorded about 150 mb of video on this card and it took about 3 minutes for my computer to start playing it. I can not say why it took this long, but it could be because the card is class 2. The camcorder manual says class 2 is acceptable.
Before you choose this bundle or buy extra sd card, do more research.
Now about the battery: Big Value Inc. clearly says that this battery is after-market. When I put this battery in the camcorder, there was a question mark over the battery icon. I couldn't tell how much time was left in the battery.
Because of these reasons I called Big Value. I was going to ask for refund and just buy the camcorder by itself, and then buy canon accepted battery. The Big Value asked me for reason (stating this is for evaluation only and they will make full refund if I want), and offered a refund of $40 and keep the items in the bundle. I find this quite acceptable and feel I made pretty good buy. My wife is happy enough to live with extra battery that does not indicate time left. I plan to do more research on SD card speed and buy appropriate items. My computer is old enough so that it does not have SD card slot (about 800 mb RAM). Maybe it is better SD card reader that I need.
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