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spitfireap · 05-22-2009, 06:52 AM

I just bought this camcorder at Bic camera in Tokyo. There is no English support in the menus which sadly is pretty much the standard with Sony products in Japan (not the case with other manufacturers thankfully). I don't know of any way to get around this other than to download the English manual and memorize the menus in English and navigate that way. Or learn Katakana (which is pretty easy) and be able to read about 50% of the menus (Katakana is the writing form used for words from other languages but most are words taken from English). If I find another way around this I'll post a reply.

05-22-2009, 06:52 AM	#5 (permalink)
spitfireap Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 1 OS: vista home premium 64	Re: Sony HDR-TG1 Japanese version hack or anything to change to english? I just bought this camcorder at Bic camera in Tokyo. There is no English support in the menus which sadly is pretty much the standard with Sony products in Japan (not the case with other manufacturers thankfully). I don't know of any way to get around this other than to download the English manual and memorize the menus in English and navigate that way. Or learn Katakana (which is pretty easy) and be able to read about 50% of the menus (Katakana is the writing form used for words from other languages but most are words taken from English). If I find another way around this I'll post a reply. Last edited by spitfireap; 05-22-2009 at 06:53 AM.