Review Gist for JVC Everio GZ-MG37 Camcorder

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video

1.	"Indoor and low-light videos are worse."... Reviews.cnet.com

2.	"Poor video quality"... Reviews.cnet.com

"Even under optimal shooting conditions, with recording in Ultra Fine quality, video is plagued by spatial artifacts such as stair-step edges, shimmering pixels, and color fringing, as well as temporal problems such as skipped frames, interframe glitches, and simply jerky video."... Reviews.cnet.com

4.	"simply jerky video"... CNet

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1.	"GZ-MG37 is an easy camcorder to use"... Easycamcorders.com

2.	"small, compact, with less to carry, and so easy to use."... Digicach.com

3.	"the latest hard disk protection technologies, allowing carefree, active camcorder use."... Digicach.com

4.	"Hard drives are less durable than DVDs or cassettes, but a shutdown feature that stops the hard drive in case of a drop provides the camcorder some protection."... Reviews.cnet.com

image

1.	"Unfortunately, the GZ-MG37's image quality is universally bad, no matter what the shooting conditions,"... Reviews.cnet.com

2.	"the GZ-MG37's image quality is universally bad, no matter what the shooting conditions, and all the bells and whistles in the world can't make up for that."... CNet

lcd

1.	"After the sleek 2.7in widescreen LCD is flipped open, the user is presented with an intuitive five-way control panel, from which most picture settings can be adjusted."... GoodGearGuide

control

1.	"Automatic controls are decent."... Easycamcorders.com

1.	"Terrible menu structure."... Easycamcorders.com

performance

1.	"In low light, the MG37 completely fell apart."... Easycamcorders.com

usage

1.	"Additional features like a battery life and HDD capacity indicator make this camera easy for even the greenest user to operate."... Easycamcorders.com

record

1.	"The camera is great"... Digicach.com

image stabilization

1.	"Optical image stabilization does a decent job up to about 10X zoom"... Reviews.cnet.com

memory

1.	"Stores up to 37 hours of video."... Reviews.cnet.com

2.	"The camcorder captures video to a 30GB HDD, enough for 7 hours of the highest quality video and 37 hours of the lowest quality."... Easycamcorders.com

frame

1.	"Its tiny frame and loads of recording space make it seem really appealing on paper."... CNet

2.	"lightweight frame"... GoodGearGuide

optics

1.	"True wide angle of 55 degrees. 32x optical zoom."... Easycamcorders.com