Eric,
Here is my wish. That your crusade ends with Sony offering a firmware upgrade so that we can all benefit.
Have you checked with other tapeless cameras to make sure that they don't do similar frame dropping?
As much as I hate these problems, this is still less problems than my tape based cameras where I had to resync at every tape change anyway.
John Lenihan
John Lenihan
LeniCam Video Productions
http://www.lenicam.com