Our school uses 8 cameras of this type to lend to students (12-18 years) to use it to make video presentations.
One big plus is the firewire connection, which plugs into a computer with Microsoft Moviemaker without any fuss. Loading the cassette is a bit tricky, but if you download the video's to a computer you can leave the cassette in the camera always. We haven't had any breakage so far.
The image quality is excellent if you save the videos as WMV files.
See here for an example: https://videoportal.kennisnet.nl/kvp/getAsset.do?assetId=33521