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Sony announced five new high definition camcorders—four in the hard disk drive (HDD) category and one in the flash memory category. The four new HDD camcorders are the HDR-XR520, the HDR-XR500, the HDR-XR200, and the HDR-XR100. Sony's new high definition flash camcorder will be the HDR-CX100. All five new models will record in full 1920 x 1080 in the AVCHD format.
The XR200 will feature the built-in GPS and geo-tagging of Sony's top two models and will benefit from the technological improvements to optical image stabilization, smile shutter, and face detection. Still image capture on the XR200 is limited to 4-megapixels (the same as last year's SR10) and the lens is the same 15x optical Carl Zeiss zoom lens. As with the SR10, there is no cam control dial for making manual picture adjustments; all manual control is performed through the 2.7-inch, 211,00-pixel touch screen LCD. There is, however, one major upgrade from the SR10: capacity has been increased to 120GB.