Sony's HDR-HC9 camcorder gets reviewed
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jason @ Feb 29th 2008 4:07PM
Video tape is for wankers. Hard drives or SSD 4twn!
Mr. Gremlin @ Feb 29th 2008 5:06PM
pshh... SxS Expresscard Flash Memory FTW! a la Sony's PMW-EX1
David @ May 18th 2008 1:19PM
Ever see a professional grade camera that DOESN'T use DV or miniDV tape? Due to high compression, hard drives and solid state media store an inferior image. Also remember that the most failure-prone part in your computer is the hard disk drive. Camcorders are even rougher on the drive! As to solid-state media, compression is even worse! Memory sticks have a limited life of read/write cycles and more failure prone than inexpensive miniDV tapes that can be digitally copied easily.
MiniDV if you want the best, Hard Drive if you want a toy!
ryan @ Feb 29th 2008 9:09PM
tape is not a bad way to go if you plan on waiting for hd burners to come down in price. i feel bad for those people that listen to the idiot sales people at best buy that talk consumers into buying hd cameras, then tell them to burn the footage to SD DVDs. why buy an HD camcorder if you are only going to end up in 480i at the end. i bought a canon hv20 last summer and i don't regret it. i have 12 full tapes just waiting to get edited and burned... once i get a blu-ray burner for my macbook pro.
ryan @ Mar 1st 2008 2:36PM
settle down there ogscorpion. you are probably a best buy employee.
Gene C. @ Feb 29th 2008 10:43PM
tape is for wankers? you're havin a laugh mate. footage on HDD and SD is over compressed garbage. HDD & SD is convenient, but it's 17mbps max bit rate is crap compared to 25mbps. i don't mind switching tapes to preserve 50% better quality.
there is a reason the 2 best consumer HD cams (and prosumer cams) still run tape.
Leroy Vargas @ Mar 1st 2008 5:24PM
True. Even professional news reporters and gatherers use digital tape, albeit of different types. CNN uses Sony's Betacam SX (a slightly-compressed variant of Digital Betacam, itself a digital variant of analog Betacam, itself a professional version of 'ye olde' Betamax); Fox News uses D-9, a professional format based on (although not compatible with) Digital-VHS. The main difference between MiniDV (the "consumer-standard" digital video tape) and those professional formats is that video on the latter is recorded as uncompressed (or, at least, slightly-compressed), edit-friendly component video rather than heavily-compressed, non-edit-friendly MPEG-2 or MPEG-4.