I am planning on going to Europe for two weeks early next year. I am most likely going to buy the Sony HDR-SR7, but I dont want to take a laptop with me since we are going to be moving around a lot. I was wondering if there is a way to hook up the camera to an external hard drive without having to use a PC and yet still back up my files?

If I were travelling I'd use something like this. It seems designed for the SR7/8. It burns HD dvd's right off the camera and uses standard dvds.

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665185948&tab=Features

The disks aren't playable in regular dvd players... just PS3's (I believe), Blu-Ray DVD players, and itself of course. Still, a good way to archive the files in hi def I think.

Larry Becker

some HDs cost more than a cheap $399 laptop. (399 laptop, usualy gets u 80gb drives)