DVD Camcorders anyone any experience?

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Apr 8, 2003 | 10:38 AM

sillysi

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I am off to Tokyo in a few weeks and fancy picking up a DVD Camcorder, has anyone got one yet?

Apr 8, 2003 | 11:29 AM

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A DVD camcorder has to be more bulky than pretty much any of the DV machines just to accomodate a DVD.

Secondly a DVD wouldn't actually hold that much footage compared to a DV tape would it ?

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Apr 8, 2003 | 12:04 PM

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Al,

The Hitachi DVD Camcorder does not use full size DVDs they use 8cm DVD-RAM or DVD-R discs so size is pretty much the same as DV camcorders. They also hold 2 hours of video which is more than a DV.

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Apr 8, 2003 | 12:19 PM

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I thought the technology was going to huge smart cards soon - 20GB memory stick, or am I talking boll@cks??

Apr 8, 2003 | 12:45 PM

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Richard,

I don't know about that, I know Sony are pushing the microMV thing whatever that is?

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Apr 8, 2003 | 12:59 PM

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Shows how much I know then

What compression are they using ? I'm sure when I load DV onto my PC I only get a few mins per Gb.....

Aren't full size writable DVD's somewhere just under 5Gb ?

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Apr 8, 2003 | 02:17 PM

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Al,

In standard quality mode they record at 352x480 @ 3Mbps, some of the DVD discs are dual sided, 60 mins on each side. Just seen price $2000, might just get the latest DV camcorder for now.

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