First HDD MPEG4 Video Camcorder

Posted by timothy on Monday January 27, 2003 @04:00AM from the just-happy-to-see-you-dear dept.

An anonymous reader submits "This is a few weeks old but we have to talk about this. Samsung introduced the world first hard disk drive based camcorder so you don't have to buy those MiniDV, Hi8s, and DVD-Rs. You take pictures, play MP3s, PAL+NTSC video! The picture quality is 350K so not a replacement for digital camera. The downside is the HDD size is 1.5 Gig so you can record video just over an hour! Why can't these bozos let us put a 40gig 2.5 IDE drive and let us record continuously for 25+ hours! Is there a corporate conspiracy to limit recording time of camcorder to about an hour (like DVD-R camcorders)?"

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Re:Dear God... by Cul8rZ · 2003-01-27 04:18 · Score: -1, Flamebait

It will not be $10240142814562751725

It doesn't support DVD,VHS, BETA, Compact Flash, PCMCIA...

Good you enjoy your old technology. Move aside and let the rest of us who want the better stuff ahead of you. MPEG-4 products will eventually allow us consumers to record at HD resolutions cheap. I'm all for products using the new technology. Your probably one of those guys who still likes VCD(s), and thinks DIVX/SVCD is not much better. Things like this take baby steps as it takes time to be accepted to the masses. So shaddup and go back to your hole.