Camcorders with internal hearddrive?

kriz100 wrote on 1/14/2005, 11:17 AM

hello,
since a while i've been looking for some digital video camcorders with an internal hard drive like 60 or 120 gb. but i didn't find any results so far. does anyone know why there are no such camcorders available? i think it is boring to capture all that videofrom my camera to my hard drive from an tape. that's really outdated as we already live in the year 2005!

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logiquem wrote on 1/14/2005, 12:03 PM

You are right about using tape is somewhat outdated...

Buy a laptop or use something like this:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=breadCrumb&A=search&Q=&ci=6544

http://www.mcetech.com/quickstreamdv/

Jay Gladwell wrote on 1/14/2005, 12:26 PM

What alternate medium to video tape would you suggest? And what do you do once the hard drive is full?

These suggested hard drives are very expensive. Is doing a capture really that boring? You know you can do something else while it's being done... like watch T.V., read a book, bake a cake, wash a load of laundry, clean house, call a friend, change the oil in your car... the list goes on and on!

Jay

nickle wrote on 1/14/2005, 12:53 PM

I will predict that in a short time, "hot-swappable" small inexpresive ($100 or so) hard drives for cameras and dvd players and PC's will converge and be the answer.

As well as huge memory sticks.

How fast would it be to copy the hard drive from camera to PC in non real time?

Much better solution.

Chienworks wrote on 1/14/2005, 1:13 PM

Firewire is currently capable of about 400Mbps. DV is about 30Mbps. It seems like the transfer could potentially take place at 13x real time, or less than 5 minutes to transfer 1 hour of video. If the drive gets mounted in the PC on a hot-swappable IDE buss then the transfer should be even faster than that.

nickle wrote on 1/14/2005, 1:19 PM

Funny what a little research will turn up.

Samsung has already done it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3381997.stm

daharvey wrote on 1/14/2005, 9:48 PM

Search the internet for "Firestore FS-4", this may help you speed up downloads to your computer.

JJKizak wrote on 1/15/2005, 5:44 AM

Try looking at the HD-8K Viper camcorder for the out the door price of $110,000.00. You will love it. I believe the hard drive is 500 gig. Then again it might be optional.

JJK