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First HDTV Camcorder
zymano writes "The JVC GR-HD1 will be introduced in May, it's the world's first consumer camcorder to offer 750 line resolution progressive video at 30 frames per second, recording MPEG2 video to MiniDV tape.
The price will start around $2500-$3500 . Some more info here with pictures. Also check out the pro version. With digital cameras at regular stores with resolution over 5 megapixel it makes you wonder why it took so long to produce."
The first, it's mine. 20 seconds!!! god be with you!!!!
Now is the perfect time to sell my Hitachi VHS camera on eBay. I mean, it even claims to be artificially intelligent. Gotta fetch a big price.
I always play Axis! Saving Private Ryan ruled!
OH YES, SUCK IT DOWN!
I work with HD material everyday, Scanning film to HD, working with HDcam and D5, rendering HD res out of 3dsmax, HD compositing with a Quantel iQ. Let me tell you, it is not easy. Being professionals even we struggle with the quirks of this new technology, EDL conversions, pulldown, audio sync, It's a beast.
You still live with your parents, don't you.
Ah, but for the lack of mod points.
Vote for global prefs bug
I've got a little story about why I really don't like sony. I bought a vaio laptop in september 2002. Almost exactly a year later I turned it on one day, plugged in my PCMCIA wireless card, and it didn't work. Windows seemed to detect it, but it was an 'unknown device'. Popped in my cdrom drive, same thing, ruled out the wireless card being damaged. put in a debian boot cd, wouldn't boot, ruled out windows. Clearly something was wrong with the PCMCIA slot. No bent pins or anything; and I never dropped it, the PCMCIA chip must have shorted out.
I checked the warrenty on the thing - crap, it had expired just a month ago. Looking through the documentation, praise the lord! I had bought a 300$ extended warenty! So I go down to Fries Electronics, where I bought it from, and they send it in. at least thier nice enough to give me a loaner laptop while its gone.
7 weeks later and Fries has my laptop. I go down and the Sony guys have only written "physical damage, not covered under the warenty". Great, 300 bucks down the drain. And how much are they charging for a repair? 900 freaking dollars!!! can a 600mhz celleron notebook motherboard really cost that much? I think not. Of course if I could get the board myself, I could solder it in, but I guess Sony makes profit off of repairing thier own products.....
I look at my warenty. Believe me, this should be covered. Sony won't even let the Fries dudes open it up so we can take a look inside. So I send the VAIO back, asking them to describe exactly how it is physically damaged. a month and a half later I get the call that its in. Guess what they've written.... "physical damage". I sent it back.
I intend for this to be as painful for them as possible. If they wanna try and rip me off, I'll make em pay. I'm sure I've cost them well over 900 bucks, sending this thing back and forth. This all started in december. If I get the laptop back and they havn't explained exactly how the chip itself is physically damaged, Ill take them to a small claims court. They wont show up. Anyway at least in the 4 months its been, Ive been using the Sony VAIO PCG-R505GL - a couple steps up from my model, its a 1.2 ghz pentium 3!!
I'm gonna be real carful when dealing with sony from now on, and I really can't recommend anyone here to ever get an extended warrenty from them, cause apparently its useless. Hmm anyway felt good to rant about that and get it out of my system.
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