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First HDD MPEG4 Video Camcorder

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:25 hours?? by rworne · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not a problem at all when using the device to record through small holes punched in walls of hotel rooms or mounting behind mirrors or light fixtures in restrooms.

    This would be great for the pervert-who-works-at-a-hotel market, who are always looking for more recording time and an easy way to process and dump the files to a file-sharing network. A power supply simply isn't a problem here.

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  2. Yes, there's a reason. by dracvl · · Score: 5, Funny

    25 hours of boring holiday footage.

  3. Target market? I bet I know! by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 4, Funny
    so you can record video just over an hour!

    Don't you see: this should be called the pr0n-camera. The mpeg4 compression means it's ready to be posted to the website without recompression, and the recording time is ... just about standard for a "feature". Anyway, now that I'm getting older, it's more time than I would need.

  4. Re:Warranty issues with 40GB drives by FatAlb3rt · · Score: 4, Funny

    you'll kill the drive pretty fast

    Better hurry up and tell apple, creative, and archos. They've got a lot of money riding on this.

  5. Re:I don't think a PC HD would work by printman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, yeah, like bad video is restricted to females! Whenever I've used a camcorder the video always ends up looking like it was recorded from a Frankenstein-cam! :)

    thump thump thump thump. Here is my house. thump thump thump thump. This is my backyard. thump thump thump... :)

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  6. Re:it's not the Hard Drive Space by Rogerborg · · Score: 3, Funny

    If only there was some way to make the batteries removable. I mean, I'm getting tired of returning my digital camera to the Kodak service department every time the batteries run out.

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  7. Re:Warranty issues with 40GB drives by sam+the+lurker · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...if you subject a standard pc HD to that while fully spinning for an extended period of time, you'll kill the drive pretty fast.

    Wrong, for just one example see page 2 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9
    Operating Mechanical Shock: 60G

    WARNING: Snide remarks follow.
    (1) Doing something for an extended period of time means that you can't possibly be killing anything pretty fast.

    (2) only a year of spinning while being moved around
    One year of spinning is 8760 hours of recording.
    Sounds like of a lot of birthdays & weddings to me.