*  Camera settings
          o Program AE - choose a scene, camera chooses best settings
                + Auto
                + Spotlight
                + Portrait
                + Sports
                + Beach & Ski
                + Sunset & Moon
                + Landscape
          o Spot meter - see below
          o Exposure (variable) - adjust the brightness of your videos
          o White balance
                + Auto
                + Hold
                + Outdoor
                + Indoor
          o Sharpness (variable)
          o Auto shutter (on/off) - activates the electronic shutter when filming in bright conditions
          o Spot focus - see below
          o Expanded focus (on/off) - enlarges the center of the frame when using manual focus; only for recording stills to the Memory Stick
          o Flash settings
                + Flash level (High, normal, low)
                + Redeye reduction (on/off)
          o Super Nightshot - described in next section
          o NS light (on/off) - turns the IR emitter on and off; for best Nightshot results, you want it on
          o Hologram AF (Auto, off ) - laser focusing system
          o Color Slow Shutter - described in next section
          o Self-timer (on/off)
          o Digital zoom (Off, 20X, 120X) - using this reduces your video quality
          o 16:9 wide (on/off) - take widescreen videos
          o SteadyShot (on/off) - described in next section
          o Progressive recording mode (on/off) - use this when you know you're going to do frame grabs (improves their quality)

    * Memory Settings
          o Still settings
                + Burst (Off, normal, high speed, exposure bracketing) - described later in review
                + Quality (Fine, standard)
                + Image size (2016 x 1512, 640 x 480)
          o Movie settings
                + Image size (320 x 240, 160 x 112)
                + Remaining (Auto, on) - how long remaining capacity of Memory Stick is shown on LCD/viewfinder
          o All Erase (All files, current folder)
          o Format
          o File numbering (Series, reset)
          o New folder - creates a folder on the Memory Stick
          o Rec folder - selects a folder on Memory Stick for recording images to
          o Playback folder - selects a folder to play images from

    * Picture Applications
          o Fader (Normal, mosaic, monotone, overlap, wipe, dot fader) - easy transitions between scenes
          o Overlap - fade in from still image on memory card to live video
          o Digital effects (Off, still, flash, lumi. key, trail, slow shutter, old movie) - adds digital effects to your videos
          o Picture effects (Off, neg. art, sepia, black & white, solarize, pastel, mosaic)
          o Memory mix - overlay still images on your video
          o PB zoom - magnify stills and videos on the LCD
          o Slide show
          o Resize (320 x 240, 160 x 120) - downsize still images
          o Frame rec - takes 6 frames, then stops; good for making stop-motion animations
          o Smooth interval recording - takes one frame at a selected interval (1-120 minutes), and saves them all to tape
          o Interval photo recording - takes a still image (to memory card) at a selected interval (1, 5, 10 mins)
          o Demo mode (on/off)

    * Edit/Play Menu
          o Variable speed playback
          o Rec control - for dubbing videos from an analog source or the Memory Stick to tape
          o Audio dub control - for dubbing analog audio to tape
          o Program edit (Other device, Memory Stick) - choose what target device you are dubbing video to
          o Burn DVD - if you've got a Sony VAIO PC with a DVD writer and their Click to DVD software, you can quickly make a DVD of your video using this feature
          o End search - jumps to the end of what you've recorded to tape
          o CM search (on/off) - search for a scene using cassette memory
          o CM title - make a scene title using cassette memory
          o CM title erase
          o CM title display (on/off) - display the title on screen
          o CM tape title - title the whole tape
          o CM all erase - erases the cassette memory

    * Standard Settings
          o Rec mode (SP, LP)
          o Audio mode (12-bit, 16-bit)
          o Volume (variable)
          o Multi-sound (Stereo, 1, 2) - select the audio channels
          o Audio mix (variable) - adjust the balance
          o LCD/VF set
                + LCD brightness (variable)
                + LCD backlight level (Normal, bright)
                + LCD color (variable)
                + VF backlight level (Normal, bright)
          o A/V -> DV out - convert analog video to digital format
          o Video input (Video, S-Video)
          o USB-camera (Off, USB streaming)
          o USB-play/edit (Standard, USB streaming)
          o Data code (Off, date/time, camera data)
          o Remaining (Auto, on) - shows how much time is remaining on the cassette
          o Remote control (on/off)
          o Rec LED (on/off) - turns the recording lamp on/off
          o Beep (Melody, normal)
          o Display (LCD, video out + LCD) - whether you want menus shown on your TV
          o Menu rotate (Normal, opposite) - choose how you navigate the menus
          o Auto shutoff (5 min, never) - I'm glad they added this!

    * Time/Language menu
          o Clock set
          o World time
          o Language (English, Simplified English [what the heck is that?], Canadian-French, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Traditional-Chinese, Korean)