Category:Camcorder Series

It's common for camcorder manufacturers to release several camcorders at once with the same body style. The groups are unofficially known as "series," and are referred to be the common letters in their model numbers. For example, the Sony CCD-TRV68, CCD-TRV78, and CCD-TRV98 are all members of the Sony CCD-TRVx8 series, with the lowercase x standing in for the number that changes. Typically, the higher this number is, the more expensive and more high-end the corresponding camcorder is. Camcorders in a series often share common features and always share distinctive features.

Some camcorders in a series may break the naming convention; for example, the CCD-TRVx8 series contains the CCD-TRV49 and the digital DCR-TRV130. They share the same body and components, so they are both members of the series, but neither of them follow the "x8" pattern. In this case, the series's official name is the one shared by the most members. There are five camcorders in the aforementioned series that follow the "CCD-TRVx8" pattern, one that follows the "CCD-TRVx9" pattern, and one that follows a completely different pattern; therefore, the "TRVx8" pattern is dominant and the series is called "CCD-TRVx8." If the models' numbers are completely different (as is the case for the Sony DCR-TRV6, DCR-TRV11, and DCR-TRV20), or the most common pattern is shared with that of a different series (as is the case with the Sony DCR-TRV940 and DCR-TRV950, which are unrelated to the DCR-TRV900), the number of the highest model is used to name the series. So the preceding two would be Sony DCR-TRV20 series and Sony DCR-TRV950 series.

In some cases, camcorders released around the same time share similar (but not exact) body styles, and have similar model numbers. If they don't share a manual or body style, and have similar numbers, they are members of an unofficial series. An example is the Sony DCR-TRVx20 series.

Only series of three or more camcorders are categorized here. Other series are described on the page of their highest-end member.