Digital Camcorders have hit the mainstream, the high-end models keep pushing into the domain previously reserved for professionals. This is a high-end camcorder that will satisfy the prosumer. Excellent and priced to show it. Digital Video, with its sharp 3-CCD's, 530 lines of resolution, shines when used on modern TVs connected by an S-Video jack. It is also great for transferring movies to a computer via IEEE 1394 Firewire with no loss of quality. Bluetooth wireless networking capability. This compact model weighs only 1.1 pounds, and has 10x optical zoom Carl Zeiss lens, digital camera mode, 14-bit A/D, 3 CCD imager, 2.7Mpixel digital still mode, PCM digital audio, IEEE 1394 jack, S-Video, A/V jacks, USB, Digital effects and transitions, 2.5" LCD Color monitor, Excellent Picture stabilizer, Handycam Station for charging and |C connection.