Video recording, sony-style

How pretty is this little beauty? The SONY DCR-SR42.

The skinny from the NY Times:

The DCR-SR42, available now at www.sonystyle.com and from electronics retailers, is the 30-gigabyte version and sells for less than $600. Despite the large amount of disk space, the SR42 is compact and weighs only 11 ounces.
Sony says the hard drive can hold 20 hours of video if you shoot at the lowest resolution. At the highest quality, that drops to 7 hours. The supplied battery lets you shoot continuously for just over an hour and a half, while an optional lithium-ion battery ($160) will last up to 10 hours.

This is the "low end" model. Take a look at all available harddisk camcorder models at sonystyle.com.