PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW HOW I LIKE my new Sony HD video camera that records to flash memory. I didn’t take it to Las Vegas with me, so I only got to play with it a bit, but I like it a lot, so far. Image quality is good — I hooked it to the HDTV and toggled back and forth between its image and the MOJO HD show Three Sheets, which comes in 1080i, and there wasn’t a lot of difference, and the slightly greater softness in the camera image may be explainable by the fact that I was using an analog connection because the HDMI connector hadn’t arrived yet. (Sony should’ve included one). Color rendition wasn’t as good as Three Sheets, but neither was my lighting setup. Ease of use is good, though the camera could actually be a bit larger to fit my hands. The optical image stabilization is excellent. Sound quality through the builtin 5.1 microphone setup is decent, and there’s no motor noise since there’s no tape. I also ordered this bluetooth wireless microphone, which hasn’t arrived yet either. So far, so good; I’ll let you know more when I’ve had more time to play with it. But for the moment, I’d say that it’s not an HD version of my Canon GL2; it’s more like an HD version of my Sony Digital 8 consumer-level camera. Which makes sense, in light of the price.