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This camera is looking sweeter by the day. That WA lens suggests that Sanyo had more than home movies in mind with this camera. Well, the external mic jack was the first sign that this is being aimed at the pro market. I predict Panasonic will be next out of the block with an HD version of the AV100, called the HD100? I'll bet anything on that.

This camera is incredible. I just played the clip back on my G4 Powerbook using Flip4Mac through Quicktime and it played fine (only a 1.25 ghz processor). This thing will be an absolute boon to doc filmmakers...imagine the intimacy, the access! OK, I'll settle down. Is it too late to return my HVX200? Sanyo makes some quality products, BTW. I have always used their cell phones and they consistently win JD Power for best cell phone manufacturer. Was it someone on this board that mentioned steve jobs and the CEO of Sanyo were friends? Interesting...so when can we get one?

Peter

Now! On E-Bay for $1300+ (shipped from Japan) or pre-order from Amazon for $799...

I'm buying one now! How much for the SD card?

This looks pretty damn cool but the limitations of SD cards make the recording time kinda sucky:

"To give you an idea what you can record on a 2GB SD, in the best setting (HD-SHQ) you can record 28 minutes and 45 seconds"

I guess it's not a big deal though.

That's still 18 minutes more than you can record with 2 P2 cards which cost more than a handful of Sanyo cams. (Substantially different format, but the point is that folks seem to be fine with recording 8 minutes at a time)

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28min is enough for me..i would probaly use laptop directly to camera casue it supports usb 2.0

this is nice clip of hdr-a1 upscale to 1920x1080

http://videopage.net/morita/Hi_Vision/8M_fujiwara.wmv

ok - got it to play ! oh man , if you had told me a month ago my next camcorder would be a Sanyo , I'd have laughed. Not laughing now. The cards are no issue to me considering they're good for about 50,000 offloads. I rarely shoot more than an hour at a time anyway. I'd start with one 4g and one 2g. If only Jean Cocteau was alive today , he'd be a happy man. Kurth

Are you kidding? I just downloaded and watched the whole thing. I just want to confirm this: that was shot with the new 720P Sanyo camcorder? The one that's going to retail for $799 in the US?

$10 says that this little cam is the holy grail for us indies.

I think that particular shot was taken with the sony A1 CMOS HDV camcorder.
Bob C

Thanks Bob you just saved me from downloading that monster ~700MB yikes !


Please note to all that clip is the Sony A1 HDV NOT the Sanyo

Anhar

It definetly does seem like a fairly good setup for indies to use depending on the level of manual control. But Like I said before some serious potential for major modifications to this little cam for serious indie movie making.

Unlike the Bayonet mount for the FX1, in the case of a major screwup in trying to do some werid modifications that involve major dissassembly, your only out 800 dollars rather than several thousand.

If this thing delievers half decent quality then it should be a hit.

Guys have a look at the following threads, lots of information:

Panasonic HD prototypes:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=58564

Samsung HD h264 camera with 17-19Mb/s.
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=58261

Ambarella full h264 chip, note the extreme low datarate needed for p60 and the quoted:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=58391

The JVC Camera, one article says it will do 1080 as well (but could be just an error) but, it seems, that it will still sue HDV:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=52319

Other threads on the Sanyo:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=57556
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=57340

Please note, that the Samsung is said to have uncompressed HDMI output, around 17-19Mb/s.

Have a look for the comparison of transcode performance between Mpeg2, WMV, and h264 Mpeg4.

H264 (I don't know about Mpeg4) has the ability to mask blocking.

Is it available in native mpeg4, thats only 6 or 9Mb/s, would get rid of any artifacts and is nearly the same datarate?

Yes, an "Shooters Preferred Second Camera (second, backup, special purpose and stunt cameras)" forum would be good, as a general place for these cameras, but what about "Solid State/Hard Drive mpeg4/h264 cameras", instead?