Sony's 100GB HDR-SR8 AVCHD Handycam: Europe and Canada only?

We're not sure what's going on with Sony, but it looks like they've also loosed a 100GB HDR-SR8 Handycam everywhere but the US. That's 38-hours of LP-mode recording, kids when the camcorder ships in July. Europeans and Canadians at least, will have dibs on the SR8 in addition to the same 1080i goodness loosed in The States: the crazy small HDR-CX7, the 40GB HDR-SR5, and the 60GB HDR-SR7. Other than the bigger disk, the SR8 is feature identical to the SR7. So what gives Sony? Of course, we've seen our Canadian brethren receive special treatment from Sony before. Anyway, next time you cross the Detroit border for smokes and teenage drinking, don't forget to pick up a few US$1670 SR8s for your pals at Engadget. Thanks.

[Via LetsGoDigital]

Read -- Canada
Read -- Europe

[f00b4r @ Apr 26th 2007 9:15AM]

So, do you Americans want to trade a bunch of these HD cameras with us Europeans in exchange for.. say.. those great deals you guys get on virtually *everything* else?

[Joe Smith @ Apr 26th 2007 10:34AM]

the average person uses their camcorders about 2 hours a year.

[alex @ Apr 26th 2007 10:52AM]

yea i agree. i don't use my camcorder all that much. Talk about buyer's remorse.

[B Roberts @ Apr 26th 2007 11:17AM]

Well, they say that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned... perhaps this is Sony's "cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face" response to its anticipated failure of Blu-Ray at the hands of Wal*Mart??

Sad, too, as these types of high-tech products are precisely where Sony shines brilliantly... not in the content control business.

You listening, Sony?

[Brandon @ Apr 26th 2007 11:18AM]

We always want what we can't have! Simple minded Americans. Waste more spend more do nothing about real problems.

[digitalh @ Apr 26th 2007 10:06PM]

Anti-Americanism...(yawn). So 20th Century...

[b_a_boone @ Apr 26th 2007 11:47PM]

I am an American if it was so 20th Century why are we still fighting about it. Just like an American not think before they act but I bet you have an excuse as to why! Our past has an ugly was determining our future especially when we don't learn from our mistakes.

[contempt @ Apr 26th 2007 11:38AM]

Given that the dollar is massively weak compared to the Euro, looks like you all are getting the better deals now (that is, if you buy from the States)

[Johan S @ Apr 26th 2007 11:43AM]

Is the hard drive on this thing removable?

I want something with a dockable removable hard drive, a USB or wireless interchangeable hard drive.

-Johan

[steve-o @ Apr 26th 2007 11:46AM]

Maybe the Canadians have secretly found a way to edit the AVCHD format.

[R @ Apr 26th 2007 3:05PM]

Yeah, it's called Vegas 7...updating for free on May 1st will include AVCHD editing.

[Jerome @ Apr 26th 2007 11:49PM]

Now you know how it feel to read "Canada Only" and not the US! This is how I feel when you have a contest and it is writting "US resident ONLY!"

HAHA! :P

[Adam @ Apr 27th 2007 12:59AM]

I am so confused, Marlboro's are like half the price of the cheapest Canadian smokes. Also the states is the only Country in the world where you can die in a war when your 18 and get lung cancer from smoking when your 18 but you cant even drink. Lame. Had I got married in the states I wouldent even have been allowed drinking on my honeymoon.

[Pete @ Jun 16th 2007 12:03AM]

that is because americans are weak and they can't handle booze until they are 21, and even when they are 21 they are still only drinking piss water compared to our manly Canadian beer

[dynamicD @ Jun 8th 2007 6:32PM]

it's availabe in the US!

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&productId=8198552921665156113&langId=-1