I bought the Sony DVD105 a few months ago but really haven't used it much until recently. During playback I noticed 'clicking' sounds reminiscent of the movie Signs,when the little kid held up the baby monitor and picked up the aliens communicating. Then I realized the sound recorder is picking up the noise of the dvd spinning inside the unit! Oh no! It makes sense though, the recorder is mere centimeters away from the disk chamber. Surely Sony must have thought of this!!

This is my first camcorder, so I'm not very knowledgeable on these things yet. Anyone ever heard of this? Is it something I can remedy? This is the first place I've come to, I suppose I should contact Sony too.

Thanks much.

Anybody that has ever owned or used a camcorder has ran into that problem. DVD camcorders have the spinning disc, tape based camcorders have the spinning head drum, hard drive camcorders have the spinning hard drive. It is something you learn to live with. Some camcorders are worse than others. Usually there is enough ambient noise in the room that will mask the noise. There is nothing that I know of that you can do to fix the problem. Next time you are shopping for a camcorder you have a new area to avoid if this bothers you a lot. Better camcorders have a separate mic. that is mounted above the camcorder. The more distance you can put between the mic. and the noise making machinery, the better.

Dave

Thanks for the response, Dave. Like I said, just got into the realm of camcorders so it's all new to me.

I wonder if there's anything I can rig that would help block the sound, like a little divider or something. It might look goofy but looks aren't everything.

It seems to have gotten worse over the last few uses :(

I wonder if there's anything I can rig that would help block the sound, like a little divider or something. It might look goofy but looks aren't everything.
I doubt it. Most camcorders have their microphone mounted inside the case. Most of the noise is transmitted from behind the microphone and through the case. There is just no way to block or absorb that noise. If it were only coming through the opening in front of the mic. you might have a chance to help it. On the older camcorders that had external mic. jacks you could use an external microphone. But todays cheap toys don't even have mic. jacks so there nothing you can do. If you have an external mic. jack it wouldn't hurt to experiment with an external microphone. Plugging in an external mic. should disconnect the internal microphone.

Dave