I've had the TRV900 for a couple of weeks and it is a very sweet little camera. Lost of menu-driven items, but nothing that's real complicated about them. Beautiful picture, maybe a hair under the VX1000 (from what I hear). I myself have not A-B'd it with the 1000, but I did A-B it with my Sony EVW300 3 chip hi-8 and it went head to head, kicking out a more saturated picture, although the 300's picture was sharper (the 17X lens on my 300 cost more than the TRV900.) I think it's a great buy.(posted 9296 days ago)