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JVC's battery lasted through our test centre's drain tests for 93 minutes. Augmenting the connection options is a nicely designed docking and charging station that adds a FireWire port, as well as extra USB and analogue video ports. The ports are appropriately placed: the USB port is on the front, near the lens, while the HDMI, component, and AV ports are at the back, by the camcorder's battery.
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The JVC Everio GZ-HD40 provides both microphone and headphone jacks, plus an accessory shoe. The menu button and control buttons are conveniently located along the outside edge of the 2.8in flip-out LCD panel.
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For more experienced users, it offers comprehensive manual control of the focus and other settings, including the shutter speed, brightness, white balance, and sharpness. For casual shooters, it provides an auto setting, as well as six scene modes (Portrait, Sports, and Twilight among them). The JVC Everio GZ-HD40's handling and operating features are mixed, at best. Still images were acceptable, but not quite as good as an average standalone digital camera. While results aren't bad, we feel that other HDV and AVCHD camcorders in its class outshine it. Under low-light conditions, the video looked fair, with washed-out colour. We consider the colour inaccuracy a minor drawback, but other people may actually see it as a plus, as the colours appear pleasingly warm. Under standard lighting conditions, the JVC Everio GZ-HD40 created good-looking video that exhibited some oversaturated colours. Our image-quality evaluations focused on video captured as 1920x1080 MPEG-2 TS files. The trade-off: on the 120GB hard drive, you can store just 10 hours of MPEG-2 TS content, versus 15 hours of 17-mbps AVCHD. The MPEG-2 video looks slightly better than the 17-mbps AVCHD, thanks to smoother colour and increased sharpness. It can also capture 30mbps MPEG-2 TS (transport stream) files at 1920x1080 pixels or as a 1440x1080, HDV-compatible 1440 CBR file. The JVC Everio GZ-HD40 records AVCHD at 17, 12, and 5mbps. The JVC model scores points for handling multiple HD formats, however. And its image quality isn't the greatest. This JVC Everio GZ-HD40 camcorder is compact, but not cheap. The JVC Everio GZ-HD40 captures 1080i high-definition video onto its 120GB hard drive (or a user-supplied microSDHC card) with a 1/3-inch CMOS sensor. It's a good HD camcorder, but better values abound. Although it has decent automatic and manual image control, the JVC Everio GZ-HD40 is like a bilingual exchange student lacking perfect mastery of either his native or secondary tongue. A compact model with a beefy 120GB hard drive, the JVC Everio GZ-HD40 records to two formats: the compact and increasingly common AVCHD, and the higher-quality MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS).