Beckave, welcome to the SMN community!

I agree....I think it was a huge blunder for Sony not to have a LANC controller port.

I hope the next successor to this camera has a LANC port.. We really need a true HD videocam instead of HDV and we need 3 large imagers, whether it be CCD's or CMOS chips. HDV has issues with quick moving subjects, and interlacing is problematic.

I sometimes wonder if I would be better off shooting in 720P than 1080i.