Ashburner

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/..._s_new_everio/

Las Vegas (NV) - JVC announced two new Everio camcorders, both of which are capable to record videos in 1080p resolution at 60 frames per second.

Camcorders are catching up to the Full HD craze and JVC's new Everio models are now able to provide 1080p recording capability. Scheduled for a March availability, the new GZ-HD5 and the GZ-HD6 are about 45% than the currently offered GZ-HD7, while offering more storage space: The GZ-HD6 integrates a 120 GB hard drive, enough for 10 hours of 1080p video; the GZ-HD5 comes with a 60 GB hard drive. There's also a microSD slot to expand the storage capacity.

Besides supporting 1080p via JVC's "Gigabrid engine", the new camcorders include a HDMI 1.3 interface as well as a progressive scan 3CCD imaging system. JVC said that the GZ-HD5 weighs about 1.25 pounds, battery included.

Both camcorders also include a software package that allows users to burn their movies on DVDs or Blu-ray discs.

The GZ-HD6 will be selling for $1400 MSRP, the GZ-HD5, will be priced at $1200.



When the GZ-HD6 hits 1K or so on the net, I'll probably jump. I bought the first generation DVD based camcorder from Sony about 4 years ago and I was never overly impressed... Plus I hate keeping track of those damn disks, have to close them out, not reading properly, ect... 120GB hard drive sounds good to me!

Sarlacc

meh, JVC has never impressed me in the video camera world.

zguy95135

Our school just got a couple of the brand new Sony HVR Z7J (I believe), we got a sneak peek demo on it. Damn that thing is amazing . Using memory cards will make post production workflow so much better, no more log and capturing. Everything is in native 24P high def so editing is much less of a pain since no rendering is needed. It can under/overcrank in camera , the slow-mo is so much better then doing it in post. Image quality and color rendition are amazing too because it's got three huge CMOS chips. 25 mins on a 8 gig card is really good, a huge step up from P2 cards, and it only takes 10 minutes to transfer a full card to a hard drive. You can swap out cards on the fly too.


I loved the swivel grip it has on it as well

Whiskers

I have one of the first hard drive camcorders...I think we used it twice...

Ashburner

So what do you recommend? I can't imagine the hard drive cameras are a bigger pain in the ass than the mini dvd.

dom

Flash FTW.

Whiskers

It was pretty easy getting the video onto disk or onto your computer...but I found that if I wanted a quick video, my Canon SD800 took decent mini clips onto the SD....I decided that you really don't ever need a video clip longer then 2 minutes anyway....

Ashburner

So, basically, as an entire industry- you think video cameras are wothless... point taken. A picture is worth a thousand words... what is a 30 min video worth?

Whiskers

For home videos, yes...I found (and others around me) that watching more then 3-5 minutes of my son doing something cute is not really entertaining enough to watch over and over again. However, I did find that splicing a bunch of 3-5 minute videos onto one big video was ok.