Bryce- I've had the 700 for two years now and use it all the time for recording HDV from my Final Cut
system. The 700 has all kinds of usage:
Great field monitor AND recorder when being fed an HDV firewire signal.
Great recorder/monitor for recording from an analog POV camera.
Great feeder deck for NLE system with firewire (HDV or DV) OR feeding the HD component out from the 700 thru my Kona LH and digitizing in ProRes or 8-bit uncompressed. Saves wear and tear from using the camera as a deck.
And my favorite: Using the HDMI out to show my client his new video in HD on his 50' plasma monitor.
Here is a link to the manual for the 700. Maybe the you should give the guy from B & H the same link.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=GV-HD700®ion_id=...
HTH,
Jerry
G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700
