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Upgrading Hard Drive in Sony HDR-SR1 HDD Camcorder
clarkbox2 writes "Here is an interesting page detailing the cracking open of a $1400 camcorder just released by Sony. The pictures and text describe the opening of the outer shell, revealing the 1.8" Toshiba hard drive within. The HDR-SR1 ships with a tiny 30gb hard drive, allowing for four hours of recording in full HD. Great pictures showing the steps to recording bliss ... now where to get a battery capable of lasting for 12+ hours of full HD video?"
I don't know about most people.........
But I am waiting for the makers to put out camcorders that have REMOVABLE hard-drives.
You just have to look just a bit further out and you'll see the market eventually giving us those tiny hard drives in a universal REMOVABLE SATA mount, and Camcorders built to use them.
I really like the form-factor of the Samsung [sp?] all electronic camcorder that is about half the size of a pack of cigarettes, has a tethered second video head.......... BUT ONLY USES DIGITAL CARDS........... Which give a person 12 minutes of recording at highest settings......... Just doesn't cut it when I am used to 2-hour 8 mm. tapes.
If they would just advance the design to use any sort of removable hard drive, I would buy one in a minute !!!
On the Samsung, it would be adding just a fraction of an inch to the very thin cross-section of the body.
I sure do like the potential of the new HDTV Sonys.
But I'm sure waiting for the merging of the tiny camcorders with removable drives before I replace my present tape based non-HDTV camcorder .
Come on Samsung, Sony, and the rest of you makers; put those separate features together as a new standard design for camcorders and you'll have a major flood of new customers.
Does it exist for playback and/or editing?
JVC makes 720p HDV camcorders. They are not hard drive based, but if you are recording straight to a notebook computer, then you wouldn't need to use tapes.