just an update,I contacted sony and they told me to go on their site and look at their manual,page 200 odd.Now it was an English/Russian manual for some reason,and there it was ,my camera does indeed have an internal battery, so there you go,its def. not in my manual and i dont know why not. I asked how to replace it but was just told to book it in for repair, it obviously isnt an easy thing to do, and I dont know why you wouldnt design the camera for easy access to this battery(especially as it is pushed as a near pro camera, just try getting it fixed all the companies class it under the pro camcorder class not the handy cam class) a liitle bit peed off about this but its not overly important i supose, just thought I would let people know incase they had the same problem,all the best Nellie
