Customer Rating: - so far so good
Very nice cam, great zoom, good video quality. Image stabilizer is great! Only one drawback: my silver cam gets scratched very easily :(

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Customer Rating: - Good deal for a camcorder
Its a good camera for its price. 35X zoom with 30GB hard drive is really great. The battery life is not bad either. I used it on my Vegas trip and didn't have battery issues.Although I wish if the power off button was outside instead of being inside the LCD flap. Overall I do like the camera. Its my first JVC camera and I love it.

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Customer Rating: - Easy recording, burning software not intuitive
Pleased with the ease of use of the camera. Picture quality is decent for the video's I will be making and price paid. Has limitations in low light but I knew that at time of purchase. Zoom is amazing. Still trying to figure out the burning software. I assumed it would be pretty intuitive and easy to select chapters for burning. Like any software I expect it to get easier the more I use it. All in all very happy with the camera, ease of use, and quality for the price.

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Customer Rating: - Picture good and easy to use but..
I purchased this camera because I have a JVC camcorder and for my current needs size and weight are issues. Picture quality is certainly better than tape seems easy to navigate the menu's once you use it for a little while. My two complaints are: the minor one is that unlike my other JVC I can't embed the date in the movie which I find useful to date images. The second and most annoying is that when you back up to PC to save or move files to a movie editing program it doesn't save them in the order they were taken. The event files are out of sequence and according to JVC customer service they are listed by files size. So to get around this I have to look at each file individually at date and time, rename it so I can get it back into the sequential order I made the movies in. I don't pretend to understand the logic of the people who created the software, but when I take movie today and it creates a file, I don't want to see it in with files that are created a week from today. JVC says there is nothing they can do, if anyone else knows a better work around I would love to hear it. As it stands now my next camera won't be a JVC if I have to do this much work to create a movie and advised JVC of that. (for all the good it is going to do)