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10 Things to Know When Buying an HD Camcorder

Looking for an HD camcorder? They're proliferating like bunnies, but is it a good time to buy one yet? Not only are there lots more HDTV camcorders on the market now than there were last year at this time, the variety of HD camcorder recording methods has expanded as well. Sure, you can record on tape, but wouldn't you really rather record to a hard drive, or better yet, a flash memory card? What about recording to DVDs, or even to Blu-ray discs? All these choices are available at prices that are oftentimes south of $1000. Here are 10 things you need to know before you plunk down your cash. More »

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2:05 PM on Wed Nov 7 2007
By Charlie White
75,201 views, 43 comments

Latest by n/a: I have read about a camcorder with a 120 GB hard drive, available at Fry's Electronics. With a 10 hour recording time at the best quality setting, this is just the thing for my bike rides. more »

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Canon HG10 is World's Smallest Hard Disk-Based HD Camcorder

Canon jumped into the hard disk camcorder market today with its HG10, the company's first high-definition hard drive camcorder and the world's smallest, weighing 19.92 ounces with the battery inside. That 40GB hard disk gives you 5.5 hours of AVCHD recording at its highest quality setting, compressing the video at 15Mbps. If our sneak preview of this camcorder is any indication, that's going to result in some sweet-looking high definition footage. Here are our impressions.
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9:00 AM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By Charlie White
20,616 views, 9 comments

Latest by auroragb: @bottleman: I don't buy the HDD speed limiting thruput. Even the slowest 4200rpm hdd's can move 15 MBytes/s which is 8x the bit rate of these devices. I get the feeling that they are just limited by the more »

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Aiptek Unleashes $299 720p Camcorder

Can't afford one of those fancy widescreen Handycams? Aiptek just announced its GO-HD, a budget ($299) HD camcorder capable of recording in 720p. The flash-only cam records to high-capacity SD cards, but cuts a few corners to hit the $299 price mark. More »

1:28 PM on Tue May 29 2007
By Louis Ramirez
7,139 views, 10 comments

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JVC HD Everio GZ-HD7 Hands On

We've been eagerly awaiting a chance to get our hands on the JVC HD Everio GZ-HD7 hard drive camcorder, and now that we've had one here for the past few days, we were not disappointed. Here are our impressions of its usability, picture quality and overall design. More »

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4:00 PM on Mon May 14 2007
By Charlie White
10,191 views, 12 comments

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Hardcore Testing Reveals Canon HV20 Is Best Consumer High-Def Camcorder


I feel a little bit guilty. The guys at Camcorderinfo.com, namely David Kender and John Neely, went to extreme measures to benchmark the four HD camcorders fighting for dominance in the very new consumer HD market. They wrote, like, over 10,000 words, and spent hours or possibly even days recording footage of the dude shown at right. And here I come along and blurt out the results in the freaking headline. The Canon HV20 ($1,000 to $1,100) beat out the Sony HDR-HC7 ($1,060 to $1,170), the Panasonic HDC-SD1 ($1,070 to $1,160), and the newcomer, JVC's Everio GZ-HD7 ($1,520 to $1,700). It didn't win hands-down, exactly, but in most cases it handily nudged out the competition. More »

9:07 PM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By Wilson Rothman
10,588 views, 6 comments

Latest by MadClark: So who's the cutie in the picture? Is that Mr. Rothman or one of the camcorderinfo.com guys? more »

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JVC HD Everio GZ-HD7 Hard Drive Camcorder with 3 CCDs Due Next Month

We are just in lust around here over the JVC HD Everio GZ-HD7, a 3-CCD camcorder that was introduced at CES in January and is aimed at consumers but has lots of pro-level features. For starters, the GZ-HD7 uses a clever pixel shifting technique to deliver the full HD raster, 1920 by 1080i—that's not 1080p, granted, but certainly an improvement over that garden-variety 1440x1080 HDV format favored by most consumer HD camcorders. More »

3:45 PM on Wed Mar 7 2007
By Charlie White
6,853 views, 11 comments