First, the review by Ray Price listed here, is fair and accurate. No need to repeat
what he has stated so well. The MC200 is a great little back-up/pocket camcorder.
However, it produces files for Windows based video formats only. It is not "officially" supported by Apple, but, if you are a Mac person, there is a happy solution.
The files produced by the camera can be easily translated into video formats that will be accepted by either iMovie HD or Final Cut Pro HD/Final Cut Pro 5. Go to the website: homepage.mac.com/major 4/ and you will be instructed how you can easily upgrade your Quicktime for MPEG 2, and use a shareware application called" ffmegX" (an easy drag, drop & click program) to reformat the (.MOD) MC200's movie files (or the MC100's/MC500's) for use on the Mac. (You will want to rename the MC200's movie file into an ".MPG" file and then drop it in ffmegX's left column, then, scroll down the right column and convert it to a "MOV MPEG4" or as "DV"
There are additional parameters available in ffmegX, so you can fine tune your settings.
The resulting movie will open up on any Mac [running OSX] with good video and sound and import fluidly into iMovie HD or Final Cut Pro HD/Final Cut Pro 5.
Also, the current version of ffmegX will work in the new Apple OSX 10.4 Tiger for this conversion process).
The MC200 is a fun camera. Like the iPod, there are no drive gears to make any noise; so, the built-in mic doesn't catch any extraneous noise of a camera tape transport motor. Also, not having to deal with tapes is a great time and money saver.

The Verio GZMC200 is a great, almost PROSUMER level mini cam.

PROS: Super video quality, highly sensitive built in stereo mic with wind cut, built in flash, ultra compact size. 2MB Still capability is very good for daytime shooting. Included 4GB Micro Drive. The fact that the camera accepts two different kinds of media is also a great thing. You can record your movies on the included 4GB Micro Drive while saving your still images to an SD Card.

CONS: Washout of white light by flash. I wish that the 200 model had the pop-up flash like the forthcoming 3CCD model to avoid the overflash you get with this model. The flash is too close to the lens causing the results of your flash shots to look overexposed, especially with lighter backdrops. Another quirky thing is the fact that there is no remote control as you would normally see on a minicam. I was dissapointed to open the box and not have that feature, especially for tripod shooting or self portraits. Built in self timer is good, but doesnt replace a true remote. If you have big hands you wont like removing the Microdrive. Its very difficult to remove the CF Card and there is little room to get a grip on the card to extract it from the slot. This is a minor flaw, but worth mentioning.

Bottom Line: Give this little camera a higher still shot capability (3-5 MP) and a decent flash and a remote and youve got a perfect, miniature Prosumer camera. I hope that JVC will have a remote control on the 3CCD Model. My overall opinion is very good of this camera, but its not perfect and if you are patient and want the quality of a 5MP Still and 3CCD technology, wait for the 3CCD Model to be released later this year. I am anxious to test that one myself.

I have had this camera for 2 weeks now and i am loving it. On my 27inch TV the video quality rivals Hollywood. On the highest quality setting you can shoot 60 min of video, and the battery(cell phone size) only last 60 min before needing recharged so you really have no reason to shoot at any less quality video. The software package is great. I had trouble installing the software at first on my PC, as the installer for the software packet was on a subfolder of the CD and was not on the autostarter main folder of the CD. Instead what "was" on the autostart for the CD was McAffee Firewall Installer. Why that came with the CD i am not sure. The Cyberlink Producer PC program is great. You can Cut, Paste, Add Music and Narrative to your movie. You can make a DVD Menu and chapter selection and burn to a DVD disc using your PC with little effort. I highly suggest you use a tripod with this camera as every little hand twitch and shake will be caught with this camera while shooting video. The camera has two audio speakers on top of the camera for dolby digital sound. The joy involved with seeing something in you video go from the left side of the screen to the right and hearing the sound follow from the left to the right. While watching my home videos on PC There is a little of playing catch up as the video is a little gittering even though my computer is a 1.7Gz and has 650Ram. But once the video is burned to DVD and watched on a DVD Player the video is smooth and uncomprimised. I would highly suggest this camera to anyone as long as you have a tripod and are not shooting video for more than 60 min without buying an extra battery $73 and extra microdrive 2.2Gig for $100 or 4Gig for $180.

This is a great product so long as you know that you are buying a product that is likely to increase in quality and lower in cost quickly. The camera lives up to the claims made by JVC, nothing wrong there. If you are just diving into digital video, you might want to wait for the next generation, for lower cost as well as more products to choose from. The Everio has great software, especially compared to early digital video cameras, and the battery time so far has been great. Overall I have been very happy with this product, but once again, do your homework and know what you are buying...this is not the be all end all of video cameras.

While there is much I really like about this camera, its short comings prevent me from recommending it to people who want just one video camera. The problems I am experiencing deal mostly with the camera's POOR performance in medium to low light conditions. While many camcorders excel at producing images in standard room lighting, this camera does a dismal job. In normal room lighting the auto focus will occasionally fail and even at the best of the times the images lack adequate saturation. The manual white balance settings improve the situation only marginally. If you are going to be shooting inside your house, use another camcorder.

Now the upside - the camcorder delivers good quality images when shooting outside. Motion artifacts are occasionally detectable when objects in the scene move quickly but not annoying at all. The zoom is quite satisfying and the auto focus only lags slightly behind when quickly zooming in the 10x optical zoom range. The compact size is spectacular! The standard tripod mount socket is a welcome addition.

And, of course, the whole video editing experience is greatly enhanced by the direct transfer of the camera's hard drive to your editing station's hard drive. (I recommend you get a card reader or PCMCIA adapter, so the camera isn't involved in the video transfer. You can be charging the camera while you are working with the saved video - something you'll do often as the battery only lasts an hour).

The saved video files have a .mod extension. The manual says you should only use the supplied software to edit/play the video files. The supplied software is from Cyberlink and it is adequate. I have found that by renaming the files to .mpg after I have copied them to my editing station, I can edit/play the video files with software not supplied with the camera. Don't know if this will work in all cases, but so far so good.

The still camera images are actually quite nice for a 2 mega pixel camera. They are always saved as JPEG files. I have found no option to save as a lossless TIFF. A real shame since the supplied 4GB microdrive really has enough room to store these big files.

The audio quality is excellent, no complaints what so ever.

One last disappointment - the camera limits maximum file size to 4GB, even if you have a compact flash card that can hold more. As a result it shall forever be impossible for this camera to record more than 60 continuous minutes using the highest quality video setting. Sure, an 8GB card can hold 2 of these 60 minute recordings but something will be missed when the first file hits the 4GB wall and the recording is stopped and the camera waits for you to manually start a new recording session.