Apart from missing handstrap (previous owner cut it as it became sticky) and weird charger port, this camcorder is pretty cool. Can record 720x480 widescreen video, 60i interlaced, onto internal 16GB flash, or accept an SD card up to 32GB. the 34x optical zoom is wild as I can zoom into the moon and make out some detail, but you have to be super steady as the EIS will fail at high zooms... It also has a lens shutter, which is a welcome thing to see, and a swiveling side so you can record yourself more easily (in my case it's how I hold it given that it's missing the strap) which I think is a unique feature. Battery lasts 3 hours and the video files it creates are standard MP4 files, but the caveat is that they're marked as "progressive" and having a 3:2 aspect ratio, despite containing 16:9 widescreen interlaced footage, requiring to manually configure parameters in an editor that supports interlaced video. Other than that, once configured and rendered correctly, the video quality is very good for standard definition, it has that MiniDV look feel to it, despite being at a lower bitrate than MiniDV, but... without the inconveniences of FireWire, S-video, capture cards, tape dropouts, C:31:23, extra phases needed to deinterlace and transcode into new files, handBREAK, ffmpreg, and it's equally as fun to use, plus the image sensor is native widescreen, and it has a wider field of view compared to a lot of miniDV camcorders, which just crop the top and bottom from a 4:3 image source to create a 16:9 image, while this one actually does widescreen (although recording in 4:3 is actually the widescreen image cropped left and right, lol). in other words, this is gonna make PowerPlayers and dangycams jealous because it's achieves tapelessness better than most "tapeless" setups out there. I love this camcorder and will be using it to record my stuff. but that square charger plug pmo. I give this thing an 9/10 just because of the charger plug and the wrong mp4 metadata. Still, despite that, I love this camcorder a lot. it has quickly become my favorite in my small camcorder collection. Sorry Sony CCD-TRV418E, you're now my second favorite.

Samsung SC-MX20 "Memory Camcorder" - review time