Hi all,

Well new to this forum and to camcorders. Perhaps some of you may help.

I recently bought and Sony XR 105 Hi def/HDD camcorder. Read the reviews about it - all looked good so went ahead with the purchase.

The camcorder itself is great, very pleased. My problems started when trying to view the content on my home cinema system.

I didn't realise that Sony (and Panasonic?) save the HD quality as AVCHD format and as such requires a Blue-Ray player or Sony ps3 to view on the tv. Now I can play the camcorders content on the TV in hi def with the HDMI, how ever an 80 gig hard drive won't last long. I tried using a memory stick plugged into the home cinema system - no luck. Same with disks.

Fair enough, so I thought, well could I try and store the AVCHD files on my pc to save the camcorders hard drive filling up then put them back on the camcorder to view on tv via HDMI? - at least then I have Hi Def files stored untill I buy a Blue ray player some point in the future. NO, sony wont let me store the files on the pc and then put them back on camcorder - at least I couldn't find a way to.....

Can anyone offer any advice, hints, tricks or solutions please????

I have run a search on here but not found anything.

Appologies for the long winded 1st post!

Thanks in advance for any help!

There are really two viable options available to you: convert your footage or buy a blu ray player.

Converting your footage

To play your HD content on your current player, you will need to downconvert to SD and most likely author a DVD. This will be both time-consuming and reduce your quality.

Blu Ray players

Some players such as come with in built AVCHD functionality.

Recommend that you do a bit of research to find out whether you need to create a file structure on the SD card.

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