For the benefit of those new customers contemplating on buying Sony DCR-DVD403 / DCR-DVD403E / DCR-DVD803 / DCR-DVD803E * camcorder, the links on some professional and user reviews are mentioned below:

User Reviews and Professional Reviews on Pricegrabber.com:

http://www.pricegrabber.com/rating_...7528/id_type=M/


User Reviews on cnet.com:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_Handyc...ml?tag=uoreturn


Professional Review on cnet.com:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_Handyc...-2.html?tag=tab


Professional Review on camcorderinfo.com:

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/conten...rder-Review.htm


Professional Review on dvspot.com**:

http://dvspot.com/reviews/sony/dvd4...iew/index.shtml


Professional Review on pcworld.com:

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/arti...d,121563,00.asp


Professional Review on videomaker.com:

http://www.videomaker.com/scripts/article.cfm?id=11236


User Reviews at the bottom of the web page on georeviews.com:

http://www.georeviews.com/show/14320/


Professional Review on pcmag.com:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1836429,00.asp


Note:
All the above four models listed are same in specs except for the NTSC/PAL standard & the country/region of their availability.

**On few of the reviews (Eg. dvspot.com), it was mentioned that editing is a pain as it is MPEG2 format. But, actually there are several editing softwares available now (PC/windows platform) which can edit MPEG2's (with AC3 sound).

These latest versions of editing softwares can also read .VOB/.VRO structure of miniDVD directly before editing & authoring into a 12cm DVD keeping the possibility of adding video/audio effects, transitions, titles, background music etc. nearly equal to the editing possibility with MiniDV.