http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/ Engadget Comments for Sony intros HDR-SR5C camcorder with 100GB hard drive http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 8th 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 8th 2007 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 8th 2007 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 11th 2007 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 8th 2007 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 8th 2007 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 8th 2007 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 8th 2007 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 8th 2007 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/
Clearly at least one division of Sony has their head screwed on straight.

Once you start recording to hard disk, changes in the recording format can be accomplished via a FIRMWARE upgrade. No more new flavor of tape every couple of years.

What Sony really needs to do now is standardize a format for REMOVABLE HARD DISKS. So you can pop the 100 GB out of this camcorder, and replace it with a 250 GB disk. Or take it out of the camcorder, and pop it into your PC. Or DVR. Or iPod. This is exactly the kind of thing where you need an industry leader like Sony to spur adoption.

Conventional hard disks are only going to get cheaper with higher capacities. Solid state disks (SSDs) are only going to get cheaper. A single "removable hard disk" format would obviate the need for a lot of the transfer mechanisms we use today (e.g. 1394) and ones we'll use in the future (wireless USB).

One format to rule them all. This is the kind of thing Sony ought to LOVE. LOL
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They are cheap, removable archives. Hard drives cannot be given to friends and relatives. Nor are they robust throwaway archive formats. They are fragile relatively expensive creatures that need decent care.

Blu-Ray and HD-DVD might go some way to solving the "how do I archive my original vidoes in the original quality" question, but they are not cost-effective yet.

Which means that perhaps young Billy's first steps will be overwritten on the cam's limited-space HD once the parents burn things to DVD. With no option for cheap removable media in the cam, I think that's a certainty.

Also, AVCHD requires some monster horsepower to edit, if that's your thing.
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I want to see more progressive cameras that can compress nicely without interlacing artifacts for web and digital distribution.]]>Jun 8th 2007 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/
25mbps is still inadequate, even for a contemporary codec. 30 should be the minimum excusable bitrate (to maintain some hypothetical compatibility with HD-DVD) with the option to scoot all the way to 40 (Bluray max) and beyond (ignoring standardized media players for archival purposes). A camcorder that uses a harddrive and costs over a thousand dollars has no excuse.
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With that said, unless you just have to have HD today.. I'd be patient and wait. DVD quality and resolution is good enough for most people. Remember that old VHS camcorder? Now that would be hideous by today's standards.

If you must have a camcorder today, save some money and get a non-HD hard drive camcorder. I do own a Sony DCR-SR300... I recommend it. Sure, it's pricey, but it's still within the same price range as its competitors and unlike most of them, it's actually a pretty nice camera.
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The industry still hasn't got an answer to the question of archiving hidef originals cost-effectively (and reliably). Perhaps in a few years high-capacity opticals like Blu-Ray will be cheap.

In the meantime, these steps are avoided with the direct-to-dvd and direct-to-tape cams; just put another dvd/ tape in. The fact pretty much remains that hidef content needs a big budget, not only to handle slowwww editing, but to handle archives.]]>Jun 9th 2007 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 9th 2007 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/Jun 9th 2007 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/sony-intros-hdr-sr5c-camcorder-with-100gb-hard-drive/http://www.cinatrade.com/productlist.jsp?cate2=44

a lot of cool DC abd DV.
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Other than a larger LCD, I don't see any advantage to the SR1.]]>Jun 19th 2007 9:19PM