Yep it's bloody stupid. Both my vx9000e are in disabled and rather than fanny aobut getting them enabled (and not a lot of point as most places cant play 'proper' size dv tapes) I decided to buy an old el cheepo DV camera with in enalbed. I hardly ever use that camera for anything other than recording into, and soon it will provide f wire preview functionality when I can be botherd to set that up.

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