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JVC First With A HD-Based Consumer Camcorder
kamesh writes "David Pogue writes in nytimes.com 'The days of storing computer data, music collections and Hollywood movies on spools of tape will soon be completely gone....JVC is the first company to see that particular light. Next month, it will release its new Everio GZ-MC100 and GZ-MC200.' Are tape based camcorders destined to die soon?"
I'm hoping that tape-based backup units will disappear and be replaced with something faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
Now on top of everything else I have to deal with I now get to defragment my camcorder.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
It seems silly beyond belief that these JVC camcorders don't support Macs. Something like this would have wide appeal to the Final Cut Pro crowd...
:)
hmm... someone need to make a mac friendly one of these with
an iPod dock to use iPod mini's as the removable hard drive
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who can count in binary and those who can't.
The hard drive is too small for me.
If I go on a trip, I want to minimize the amount of stuff I have to lug around... and when I'm on vacation, I don't want to carry a laptop around just so I can dump my footage.
Gimme at least 120gb and then I'll start being interested.
As is so common in mainstream tech writing, the article completely misses the point. They claim that because the camera can use microdrives (compact flash based hard drives) that it is somehow comparable to the ipod. I don't usually consider 4gb equivalent to 40 gb , 60 gb, or whatever the ipod (and other high cap music players) max capacity is now.
To me, the real advance would be a camcorder that used a 60gb (or larger) hard drive like the ipod and directly recorded mpeg2 or mpeg 4. I don't need the thing to be microscopic, it has to be big enough to hold and have a decent battery life. Obviously it would need firewire of USB2.
Does anyone have a camera like that coming?
- is this a record ?
$ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
http://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftech2. nytimes.com%2F2004%2F11%2F25%2Ftechnology%2Fcircui ts%2F25stat.html&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 &client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:offici a/
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A D-VHS tape can store about 44 gigabytes. You don't want to know how much money it costs to do that in solid state memory. It looks like the D5 tape standard uses 140GB/hour.
IMO, it is pretty curious that this HD camcorder doesn't use it, as JVC is trying to promote D-VHS, they own the VHS and D-VHS standards.
Oh No!
HD = Hard Drive
HD = High Definition
Confusion in future Slashdot articles = imminent
I gotta keep complaining about how much JVC just doesn't get it. I've been waiting forever for a HD camcorder, but this thing is a dog. Why would anyone want to edit video on a camcorder? The camcorder should concentrate on being a camcorder and leave the editing up to laptops. Keep it simple and elegant and eliminate all of the little thumb buttons and crazy menus within menus within menus that makes most digital camcorders and cameras such a drag to use.
And no viewfinder! What are you going to do on a sunny day when the LCD is all washed out... shoot in a random direction?
For over a grand, I'd expect more thought put into how a camcorder is actually USED.
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who can count in binary and those who can't.
How is JVC first when i spotted my eye on this 4MP Sanyo several months ago! (it was RELEASED on september 10th!)
I'm always suspicious of companies that claim 'first' status. Are there any other companies which beat JVC out the door on this?
A tape is like $4, find me 4GB hd's for that price and I'll carry a few.
That said, anyone know the lifetime on mini-dv tapes? Is it better than on optical media (dvd-r specifically). I'm trying to decide how best to archive video of my child. DVD is great for watching but I fear that some day I'll pop it in the machine and it will be dead.
"You can now flame me, I am full of love,"
Uh. I hope not.
Tapes are the most reliable and versatile medium for massive data storage and even the tapes can't keep up with the demand.
On my home computer, I've got 500+ MB worth of results from simulations that I would like to back up but there's just no affordable way to do that.
And no, having the data on RAID-arrays or copying it onto spare hard drives is not "backing the data up".
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DO NOT let George Lucas NEAR the things.
Get an old video recorder, the older the better. You're looking for a seperate motor for each drive, top loader if possible, with a metal deck. Remove the top cover.
Glue two cotton makeup removing pads (the kind *without* moisturiser, just dry cotton pads) or something similar to two pieces of wood. Arrange them so they squeeze the tape gently.
Wind the tape backwards and forwards a few times, and the gunk will get wiped off the tape. If they are really bad, change the pads between each pass. Periodically hoover the mouldy gunk out of the machine.
If there is something really stubborn on the tape, soak two pads in alcohol, arrange a big long drying loop (you may need to remove the head block) with a fan to blow dry it, then two "dry" pads for a final wipe.
This works, and works well.